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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in1
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md7
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/src/installation/prerequisites-source.md9
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in b/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in
index 448fee803..df9209c7d 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in
+++ b/doc/manual/src/SUMMARY.md.in
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
- [Hacking](contributing/hacking.md)
- [CLI guideline](contributing/cli-guideline.md)
- [Release Notes](release-notes/release-notes.md)
+ - [Release 2.4 (2021-XX-XX)](release-notes/rl-2.4.md)
- [Release 2.3 (2019-09-04)](release-notes/rl-2.3.md)
- [Release 2.2 (2019-01-11)](release-notes/rl-2.2.md)
- [Release 2.1 (2018-09-02)](release-notes/rl-2.1.md)
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md b/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md
index ce31029cc..28fa23b58 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/expressions/language-values.md
@@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ Nix has the following basic data types:
environment variable `NIX_PATH` will be searched for the given file
or directory name.
+ Antiquotation is supported in any paths except those in angle brackets.
+ `./${foo}-${bar}.nix` is a more convenient way of writing
+ `./. + "/" + foo + "-" + bar + ".nix"` or `./. + "/${foo}-${bar}.nix"`. At
+ least one slash must appear *before* any antiquotations for this to be
+ recognized as a path. `a.${foo}/b.${bar}` is a syntactically valid division
+ operation. `./a.${foo}/b.${bar}` is a path.
+
- *Booleans* with values `true` and `false`.
- The null value, denoted as `null`.
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/installation/prerequisites-source.md b/doc/manual/src/installation/prerequisites-source.md
index 6825af707..40cb79627 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/installation/prerequisites-source.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/installation/prerequisites-source.md
@@ -26,15 +26,6 @@
available for download from the official repository
<https://github.com/google/brotli>.
- - The bzip2 compressor program and the `libbz2` library. Thus you must
- have bzip2 installed, including development headers and libraries.
- If your distribution does not provide these, you can obtain bzip2
- from
- <https://sourceware.org/bzip2/>.
-
- - `liblzma`, which is provided by XZ Utils. If your distribution does
- not provide this, you can get it from <https://tukaani.org/xz/>.
-
- cURL and its library. If your distribution does not provide it, you
can get it from <https://curl.haxx.se/>.