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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-08-28 18:26:01 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-08-28 18:26:01 +0200
commit9eddf6f0b68e1ac69d56de3c5c0899481ad2c6cf (patch)
treefca6b0383065d6f35f998cf7ea3e3776d40c9375
parentb5da80e627f6162c7aad6c4b836525717d39c295 (diff)
allowedRequisites: Drop stdenv mention
I don't think it's a good idea to use allowedRequisites for stdenv, so don't mention it here.
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/release-notes.xml6
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml5
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index 36e345ecf..f64b6cb17 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@
<varname>allowedReferences</varname>. But instead of only enforcing
to explicitly specify the immediate references, it requires the
derivation to specify all the dependencies recursively (hence the
- name, requisites) that are used by the resulting output. This is
- used in NixOS when rebuilding the stdenv on Linux to ensure that the
- resulting stdenv doesn't have any surprising dependency, e.g. on
- bootstrapTools.</para></listitem>
+ name, requisites) that are used by the resulting
+ output.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index d51f80771..c4f069893 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -1583,10 +1583,7 @@ allowedReferences = [ foobar ];
enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any other
runtime dependency than <varname>foobar</varname>, and in addition
it enforces that <varname>foobar</varname> itself doesn't
- introduce any other dependency itself. This is used in NixOS when
- rebuilding the stdenv on Linux to ensure that the resulting stdenv
- doesn't have any surprising dependency, e.g. on
- bootstrapTools.</para></listitem>
+ introduce any other dependency itself.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>