Eelco Dolstra
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This improves reproducibility and may be faster than fetching from the original source (especially for git/hg inputs, but probably also for github inputs - our binary cache is probably faster than GitHub's dynamically generated tarballs). Unfortunately this doesn't work for the top-level flake since even if we know the NAR hash of the tree, we don't know the other tree attributes such as revCount and lastModified. Fixes #3253.
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.