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| author | Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io> | 2022-12-01 01:57:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io> | 2023-03-05 01:46:17 +0100 |
| commit | 2af9fd20c62a964ae50bd6c31ee30d57e5be15e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 54309aefaaa0e63f50edaa2d4dd532f35a81601b /doc | |
| parent | 1e87d5f1ea43be0daa42e9be17184b15f5fbdf07 (diff) | |
clarify definition of "installable"
the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in
a very long document lacking an overview section.
search did not help because it occurs so often.
- clarify wording in the definition
- add an overview of installable types
- add "installable" to glossary
- link to definition from occurrences of the term
- be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed
- installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation
Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/glossary.md | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/glossary.md b/doc/manual/src/glossary.md index d0aff34e2..1256b272f 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/glossary.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/glossary.md @@ -193,6 +193,11 @@ A symlink to the current *user environment* of a user, e.g., `/nix/var/nix/profiles/default`. + - [installable]{#gloss-installable}\ + Something that can be realised in the Nix store. + + See [installables](./command-ref/new-cli/nix.md#installables) for [`nix` commands](./command-ref/new-cli/nix.md) (experimental) for details. + - [NAR]{#gloss-nar}\ A *N*ix *AR*chive. This is a serialisation of a path in the Nix store. It can contain regular files, directories and symbolic |