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</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Pure evaluation mode</emphasis>. This is a variant
- of the existing restricted evaluation mode. In pure mode, the Nix
- evaluator forbids access to anything that could cause different
- evaluations of the same command line arguments to produce a
+ <para><emphasis>Pure evaluation mode</emphasis>. With the
+ <literal>--pure-eval</literal> flag, Nix enables a variant of the existing
+ restricted evaluation mode that forbids access to anything that could cause
+ different evaluations of the same command line arguments to produce a
different result. This includes builtin functions such as
<function>builtins.getEnv</function>, but more importantly,
- <emphasis>all</emphasis> filesystem or network access unless a
- content hash or commit hash is specified. For example, calls to
+ <emphasis>all</emphasis> filesystem or network access unless a content hash
+ or commit hash is specified. For example, calls to
<function>builtins.fetchGit</function> are only allowed if a
<varname>rev</varname> attribute is specified.</para>