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2018-10-29editline: wipWill Dietz
2018-04-12Add to glossary and clarify garbage collectionSean Seefried
While trying to understand garbage collection it was not immediately clear that only the runtime dependency closure of output paths would be kept (instead of the build-time dependency closure). This commit attempts to clarify this by expanding some of the glossary definitions and extending the Garbage Collection section.
2017-11-27doc: linenoise -> linenoise-ngWill Dietz
2017-07-30replace "Mac OS X" with "macOS"davidak
except in older release notes where the name was actually Mac OS X.
2017-05-10Replace readline by linenoiseEelco Dolstra
Using linenoise avoids a license compatibility issue (#1356), is a lot smaller and doesn't pull in ncurses.
2017-04-19Fix small grammar issue about pagekballou
Fix subject-verb agreement issue in introduction/about.
2016-02-18context for introducing runtime dependenciesDan Connolly
The first occurrence of "runtime dependencies" wasn't related to the surrounding narrative.
2015-03-06Fix typos: s/the the/the/Daniel Hahler
2014-12-09Use https://cache.nixos.org instead of http://cache.nixos.orgEelco Dolstra
2014-11-25Intro: Mention binary cachesEelco Dolstra
2014-11-24Update quick start sectionEelco Dolstra
2014-09-16Tweak some chapter titlesEelco Dolstra
2014-09-16Drop "service deployment" bla blaEelco Dolstra
2014-09-16Drop reference to FreeBSDEelco Dolstra
2014-08-27Restructuring the Nix manualMikey Ariel