Update README.md with nix.conf changes needed for persistent derivations #2
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It appears that the derivations produced by nix-direnv are removed when running nix's garbage collection. Troubleshooting this issue led me to a git issue in the NixOS/nix repo. Enabling both
keep-derivations
andkeep-outputs
worked for me as recommended, and now nix-direnv is working.