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Introduction should clarify that hashes are used in paths to software

Open tejing1 opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

This section: https://github.com/divnix/nix-book/blob/f6448f447d5584854803ac7829e3dd1c00686a32/src/ch02-00-introduction.md?plain=1#L12-L18 is difficult to follow because no mention has yet been made that hashes are used to determine the paths at which software is installed. Many of the claims in this paragraph don't make sense without that context.

tejing1 avatar Aug 21 '22 02:08 tejing1

;( Fair, I'll think about how to word this in a more clear way.

jonringer avatar Aug 22 '22 05:08 jonringer

The first few paragraphs are the hardest to get right, but also the most important. I'm sure it'll take some iterating.

Is it enough to just make it:

This information is aggregated through hashing, and used to determine the software's installation path, allowing nix to describe...

tejing1 avatar Aug 22 '22 05:08 tejing1