eldritch horrors
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it's broken, can write arbitrary file paths when run as root, and only supports strings and recursive sets of strings. this was only used for manpage generation in a build system that has not woken up since 1976. fixes #974 fixes #227 Change-Id: I4f18599685a3077c15ddc02c759558f986c8c6e4
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synopsis: "`nix eval --write-to` has been removed"
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cls: [4045]
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issues: [fj#974, fj#227]
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category: "Breaking Changes"
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credits: [horrors]
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`nix eval --write-to` has been removed since it was underspecified, not widely
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useful, and prone to security-sensitive misbehaviors. The feature was added in
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Nix 2.4 purely for internal use in the build system. According to our research
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it hasn't found any use outside of some distribution packaging scripts. Please
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use structured outputs formats (such as JSON) instead as they have better type
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fidelity, don't conflate attributes with paths, and are useful to other tools.
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