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authorbinarycat <binarycat@envs.net>2024-03-13 14:30:43 -0400
committerbinarycat <binarycat@envs.net>2024-03-14 16:15:31 -0400
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doc: add link to the language frameworks from the pkgs quickstart
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@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ Now that this is out of the way. To add a package to Nixpkgs:
    $ git add pkgs/by-name/so/some-package/package.nix
    ```
 
+   If the package is written in a language other than C, you should use [the corresponding language framework](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#chap-language-support).
+
    You can have a look at the existing Nix expressions under `pkgs/` to see how it’s done, some of which are also using the [category hierarchy](#category-hierarchy).
    Here are some good ones: