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-- The standard environment
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-  (Some of this can be moved from the Nix manual)
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-  - Special attributes
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-  - Generic builder
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-  - Helper functions
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-  - GCC / ld wrapper (+ env vars)
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-  - Phases (+ how to add phases) and hooks
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-  - Override functions for stdenv
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-    - Overriding GCC
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-    - Overriding the setup script
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-    - Predefined override functions in all-packages.nix: static binary
-      stdenv, dietlibc stdenv
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-  - Stdenv bootstrap; how to update the Linux bootstrap binaries
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-  - Specific platform notes (Linux, Native, Cygwin, Mingw)
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-- Support for specific languages
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-  - Perl
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-    - Generic Perl builder
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-  - Python
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-    - Wrapper generation
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-  - Haskell
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-    - TODO
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-  - Java
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-    - TODO; Java needs lots of improvement
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-  - TeX/LaTeX
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-    - Special support for building TeX documents
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-- Special kinds of applications
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-  - OpenGL apps
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-  - Binary-only apps
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-  - Linux kernel modules
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-  - Mozilla plugins/extensions
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-  - X apps
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-  - KDE apps
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-  - GConf-based apps
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-  - Programs that need wrappers
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-    - makeWrapper etc.
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-  - Initial ramdisks
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-- Library functions
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-  - i.e. in lib/default.nix
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-- Specific package notes
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-  - Linux kernel; how to update; feature tests
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-  - X.org; how to update
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-  - Gnome; how to update
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-  - GCC?
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-  - GHC?
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-  - ...
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-- Meta attributes
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-  - License attr; possible values
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-- Virtual machine support (for the build farm)
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-  - vmtools
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-  - KVM notes
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-  - Performing a build in a VM
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-    - In the host FS
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-    - In a disk image
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-  - RPM builds
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-    - RPM image creation
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-  - Deb builds
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-    - Deb image creation
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-  - Debugging VM builds
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-- Guidelines for Nixpkgs contributions
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-  - File naming conventions
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-    - Versioning of packages
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-  - Tree organisation
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-  - Variable naming
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-  - Layout / indentations style
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-  - Output FS hierarchy (e.g. $out/share/man instead of $out/man)
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-- Misc
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-  - Building outside of the Nixpkgs tree
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-  - Config options
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-  - Downloading stuff
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-    - fetchurl
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-      - mirror:// scheme
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-    - fetchsvn
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-    - fetchcvs
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-    - fetchdarcs
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-- Appendix: Nixpkgs config options
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