Linus Heckemann
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This allows specifying additional systems that a machine is able to build for. This may apply on some armv7-capable aarch64 processors, or on systems using qemu-user with binfmt-misc to support transparent execution of foreign-arch programs. This removes the previous hard-coded assumptions about which systems are ABI-compatible with which other systems, and instead relies on the user to specify any additional platforms that they have ensured compatibility for and wish to build for locally. NixOS should probably add i686-linux on x86_64-linux systems for this setting by default.
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.