Introduce experimental fetchComposerDepsImpure
#5
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fetchComposerDeps
works okay but since the fetching runs at evaluation time, it grinds Nix evaluator to a halt.As a bonus, we have a finer control over what is fetched so we can limit it to a shallow fetch.
This patch adds an alternative implementation that moves the work to build time based on the experimental
impure-derivations
feature.Unfortunately, the feature needs to be enabled in the daemon and can only be used by other impure derivations.
The repo derivation also will not be cached by Nix so everything will need to be re-fetched for every build.