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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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xml:id="chap-introduction">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>This manual tells you how to write packages for the Nix Packages
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collection (Nixpkgs). Thus it’s for packagers and developers who want
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to add packages to Nixpkgs. End users are kindly referred to the
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<link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/unstable/manual/">Nix
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manual</link>.</para>
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<para>This manual does not describe the syntax and semantics of the
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Nix expression language, which are given in the Nix manual in the
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<link
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xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/unstable/manual/#chap-writing-nix-expressions">chapter
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on writing Nix expressions</link>. It only describes the facilities
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provided by Nixpkgs to make writing packages easier, such as the
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standard build environment (<literal>stdenv</literal>).</para>
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</chapter>
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