Shea Levy
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Previously, plain derivation paths in the string context (e.g. those that arose from builtins.storePath on a drv file, not those that arose from accessing .drvPath of a derivation) were treated somewhat like derivaiton paths derived from .drvPath, except their dependencies weren't recursively added to the input set. With this change, such plain derivation paths are simply treated as paths and added to the source inputs set accordingly, simplifying context handling code and removing the inconsistency. If drvPath-like behavior is desired, the .drv file can be imported and then .drvPath can be accessed. This is a backwards-incompatibility, but storePath is never used on drv files within nixpkgs and almost never used elsewhere.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.