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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-10-29 11:18:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-10-29 19:07:58 +0100 |
| commit | 136787cb4e7baa8e389956ecbf74d87acda0c5a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 465085e21d98eb820618cd3abbba0c3314a1391e | |
| parent | 122c3a1d67816c2b193a46487875d363ebe35361 (diff) | |
doc: Mention Nix in the intro.
* doc/guix.texi (Introduction): Mention Nix with a xref to
"Acknowledgments".
(Acknowledgments): Add link to nixos.org.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 01e28041f2..b5c08f5d9c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ software packages, etc. @cindex functional package management The term @dfn{functional} refers to a specific package management -discipline. In Guix, the package build and installation process is seen +discipline pioneered by Nix (@pxref{Acknowledgments}). +In Guix, the package build and installation process is seen as a function, in the mathematical sense. That function takes inputs, such as build scripts, a compiler, and libraries, and returns an installed package. As a pure function, its result depends @@ -8421,7 +8422,8 @@ reason. @node Acknowledgments @chapter Acknowledgments -Guix is based on the Nix package manager, which was designed and +Guix is based on the @uref{http://nixos.org/nix/, Nix package manager}, +which was designed and implemented by Eelco Dolstra, with contributions from other people (see the @file{nix/AUTHORS} file in Guix.) Nix pioneered functional package management, and promoted unprecedented features, such as transactional |