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This PR (and future PRs I'll be submitting in the same vein) is focused on improving grammar, voicing, stylistic consistency, and readability. As a relatively inexperienced Nix user, I don't...
Subtasks: - [ ] Provide pill-by-pill, runnable code snippets - [ ] Provide more structured, open-ended exercises - [ ] Ensure that the main text is entirely self-contained and that...
Could it be possible to improve the structure of the documentation. As a reader it is not obvious how to start and what topics are needed to learn first. I...
The intro to chapter 6 mentions that > Derivations are the building blocks of a Nix system, from a file system view point. .. and then it jumps to describing...
```tobias@balu:~$ nix-env -q hello-2.10 tobias@balu:~$ nix-store -q --references $(which hello) error: path '/home/tobias/.nix-profile/bin/hello' is not in the Nix store tobias@balu:~$ nix-store -q --references `which hello` error: path '/home/tobias/.nix-profile/bin/hello' is not...
[7.2. Using a script as a builder](https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/working-derivation.html#idm140737316247152) The above pill references output made by `declare -xp` in the nix repl. However, I'm not getting any. The following shows my output:...
You can get it by running `nix-build release.nix -A pills.epub`. Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nix-pills/issues/31
It should be easy to add an output for an epub file. I tested it manually by changing the path to the xsl in the xsltproc call to `${pkgs.docbook5_xsl}/xml/xsl/docbook/epub3/chunk.xsl` and...
Nix Pill 12 does not build Stdout/stderr ``` CC parse.lo CC queue.lo CCLD libgvpr.la /nix/store/7m6p435s1c9ysfs266n9ppfw9zkii697-binutils-2.35.1/bin/ld: ../../lib/expr/.libs/libexpr_C.a(sfexit.o): in function `atexit': /tmp/nix-build-graphviz.drv-0/graphviz-2.38.0/lib/sfio/sfexit.c:54: multiple definition of `atexit'; ../../lib/expr/.libs/libexpr_C.a(vmexit.o):/tmp/nix-build-graphviz.drv-0/graphviz-2.38.0/lib/vmalloc/vmexit.c:50: first defined here /nix/store/7m6p435s1c9ysfs266n9ppfw9zkii697-binutils-2.35.1/bin/ld: ../../lib/expr/.libs/libexpr_C.a(sfexit.o):...
Section 14.2 mentions: ``` The difference is obvious, as well as the advantages of this approach. ``` While the difference is described above: > We would like to avoid specifying...
