From 2af9fd20c62a964ae50bd6c31ee30d57e5be15e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Gagarin Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 01:57:02 +0100 Subject: 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> --- doc/manual/src/glossary.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3