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diff --git a/doc/using/configuration.chapter.md b/doc/using/configuration.chapter.md index 2445aa32f2a7f..3c46dc3227a65 100644 --- a/doc/using/configuration.chapter.md +++ b/doc/using/configuration.chapter.md @@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ The difference between a package being unsupported on some system and being brok ## Installing unfree packages {#sec-allow-unfree} +All users of Nixpkgs are free software users, and many users (and developers) of Nixpkgs want to limit and tightly control their exposure to unfree software. +At the same time, many users need (or want) to run some specific pieces of proprietary software. +Nixpkgs includes some expressions for unfree software packages. +By default unfree software cannot be installed and doesn’t show up in searches. + There are several ways to tweak how Nix handles a package which has been marked as unfree. - To temporarily allow all unfree packages, you can use an environment variable for a single invocation of the nix tools: |