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Describe derivation outputs, and topics about them like input addressing in detail.

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Very nice that there is more pre-exsting material in the language manual we can move out, and give a better home, with this.


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@Ericson2314 Ericson2314 added this to the nix-2.27 milestone Feb 26, 2025
Note, this includes some text adapted from from Eelco's dissertation
@Ericson2314 Ericson2314 force-pushed the store-derivation-options branch from ddee560 to 2aa6e0f Compare February 27, 2025 07:14
@Ericson2314 Ericson2314 added the ca-derivations Derivations with content addressed outputs label Feb 27, 2025
@Ericson2314 Ericson2314 marked this pull request as ready for review February 27, 2025 07:15
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OK this is ready for review! There are some TODOs, but they should all be within <!-- .... --> blocks.

I couldn't resist putting in some explanation amidst the reference, but it should be entirely confined to > blocks.

@roberth roberth self-assigned this Mar 3, 2025
@roberth roberth enabled auto-merge March 3, 2025 18:10
@roberth roberth merged commit efbd4c1 into master Mar 3, 2025
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@roberth roberth deleted the store-derivation-options branch March 3, 2025 22:11
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Expand manual on derivation outputs (backport #12442)
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