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services.hydra.useSubstitutes

Whether to use binary caches for downloading store paths. Note that binary substitutions trigger (a potentially large number of) additional HTTP requests that slow down the queue monitor thread significantly. Also, this Hydra instance will serve those downloaded store paths to its users with its own signature attached as if it had built them itself, so don't enable this feature unless your active binary caches are absolute trustworthy.