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Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.
just adding what is already there, up to discussion. based on Nix documentation team [discussion on 2022-07-07](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-07-07-documentation-team-meeting-notes-4/20198)
the glossary is empty, and influences are irrelevant for the objective of learning Nix
we observe that people are confused about names in the Nix ecosystem and find it hard to distinguish between its components. given the goal of easing learning Nix, we should...
we observe confusion around terminology. - newcomers find it hard to distinguish all the things that are called Nix - Nix is a very generic term that is hard to...
It is difficult to find information across the different layers of documentation (the suggestion is based on my experience with the existing documentation that is spread over multiple places and...
(the suggestion is based on my experience with the existing documentation that is spread over multiple places and not a comment on the this book project.) To evaluate if information...
since the ecosystem is still changing significantly, it may be sensible to keep out-of-tree material in lockstep with major releases. - related: - NixOS/nix.dev#297 - https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/25 - manuals are not...
- it is not clear yet what the documentation team should maintain as a central learning resource and what should merely be referenced - proposal: - include: - guides to...
- are Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS one thing or separate projects? - see [discussion from team meeting NixOS/nix-book#1](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-06-15-documentation-team-meeting-notes-1/20004) - related: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/issues/734 - what about Home Manager, `nix-darwin`, NixOps, Disnix, Hydra,...