Valentin Gagarin

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It seems you still kept the detour to the final solution and wrapped it in tutorial-style instructions. This is fine if the contents of the detour are the learning objective....

That's exactly what I tried to make clear last time: the solution is so simple, it could (should) be a brief Guide. There is no obvious skill to learn here,...

Guides should live here on nix.dev. I propose the following structure: - present a trivial standalone script with non-trivial dependencies the [example in the Nixpkgs manual](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#trivial-builder-writeShellApplication) using `w3m` is a...

Also in favor of not printing news automatically. I will use `git log` in any case, and having some automation affordances around that would indeed help. Agreed, no point duplicating...

Thank you, it's worthwhile having this documented at all. Yet, it does not feel right to rely on an external service just to do regular development work on Nix itself....

@abathur I want to emphasize that I think it absolutely *is* worth documenting what you say. @thufschmitt just posted [Tweag's roadmap for Nix](https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-08-04-tweag-and-nix-future/) where we explicitly state that we want...

> but you do realize that I'm [...] describing the gap people need to close to enable the installer and `installer_test` jobs already defined in this repository, right? @abathur Truth...

Probably a random mistake, I went through issues fairly quickly.