Eelco Dolstra

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We now have a `:doc` command (on the markdown branch), which can show the documentation for builtin functions: ``` $ nix repl Welcome to Nix version 3.0pre20200825_7a02865. Type :? for...

> Derivations do not rely on env for scheduling attributes and such, because those are Nix-specific fields, not dict entries. This seems orthogonal to the JSON representation, because this is...

> I don't think this change is worthwhile on its own It's actually not clear to me what is being proposed here. `nix derivation show` just shows the contents of...

Attributes like `preferLocalBuild` *are* environment variables. That's how it has always worked. What problem is being solved here?

While undesirable, this is not a bug, not something we can fix in a backward compatible way, and not flake-specific.

@tomberek > An update to the input of a subflake does not get automatically picked up by the root when running a build. That's right, and probably not ideal, but...

Added a release note. IMHO this is ready to be merged.

This is related to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/509. We should move per-user data out of `/nix/var/nix` and into their home directories.

Can you check if the slow performance also happens with Nix 2.20 (`nix shell nix/2.20.6`)? It might be related to the Git-based tarball cache that we started using in 2.21.