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I hadn't heard of this term before, so I assume other people might not have either. This commit adds a comment to expand-response-params explaining what a "response file" is.

Most mentions of "response file" in Nixpkgs are near some kind of reference to this derivation, so anybody trying to figure out what

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this is will encounter this comment pretty quickly.

I hadn't heard of this term before, so I assume other people might
not have either.  This commit adds a comment to
expand-response-params explaining what a "response file" is.

Most mentions of "response file" in Nixpkgs are near some kind of
reference to this derivation, so anybody trying to figure out what
this is will encounter this comment pretty quickly.
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