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The ecosystem is messy and people rightfully struggle to make sense of the various conventions for Nix expressions. Make an overview of commonly encountered patterns and what they mean. @lf-...
**Problem** When we move sections from one file to another, there is no way to automatically redirect users to the new location. Using stale anchor links will lead nowhere. **Approaches**...
We have a guide for writing tutorials: https://nix.dev/contributing/documentation/writing-a-tutorial But guides address a different need: looking up contextualised facts to execute common tasks or implement common workflows. That requires a particular...
Otherwise going through the tutorials or guides, readers will have to download all of Nixpkgs multiple times, which just takes space, bandwidth, and time.
**Observations** The `if ... then ... else ...` concept is not introduced in the [Nix language tutorial](https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/blob/master/source/tutorials/nix-language.md) **Problem** This is a problem for discovering that the feature exists, or even...
This is a tracking issue for the most important concepts that need special treatment early in the user journey, rather than a glossary entry or reference documentation in the relevant...
There are various ways to accomplish this laid out in this comment: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-search/issues/636#issuecomment-1477885841
Migrate `post-build-hook` guide to nix.dev. This is a valuable guide that doesn't belong to the Nix reference manual, but should absolutely be preserved and maintained. More information: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7979 Note: This...
Closes #463 originally written under LGPL 2.1 for the Nix reference manual. authors as recorded in the Nix repository: git log --pretty="Co-authored-by: %an " -- doc/manual/advanced-topics/post-build-hook.xml doc/manual/src/advanced-topics/post-build-hook.md | sort |...