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2023-12-08doc: Rename to Nixpkgs reference manual and state purposeSilvan Mosberger1-5/+9
For the time being, we're moving towards https://nix.dev/ containing all tutorials and guides. The Nixpkgs manual is reinforced to be a _reference_ manual. While it's not just reference for now, that's what the docs team is working towards. This commits rewrites the Nixpkgs manual introduction to reflect that and point to some more useful links. The contribution docs are updated similarly so it's not missed. Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io> Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-14doc: remove mention of X11 license variant (#255081)asymmetric1-1/+1
The Nixpkgs license is pure MIT.
2023-01-05updating stable nixos version in preface.Henrik Karlsson1-3/+3
2021-06-07doc: prepare for commonmarkJan Tojnar1-1/+1
We are still using Pandoc’s Markdown parser, which differs from CommonMark spec slightly. Notably: - Line breaks in lists behave differently. - Admonitions do not support the simpler syntax https://github.com/jgm/commonmark-hs/issues/75 - The auto_identifiers uses a different algorithm – I made the previous ones explicit. - Languages (classes) of code blocks cannot contain whitespace so we have to use “pycon” alias instead of Python “console” as GitHub’s linguist While at it, I also fixed the following issues: - ShellSesssion was used - Removed some pointless docbook tags.
2021-01-01doc: explicit Markdown anchors for top-level headings; remove metadataRyan Mulligan1-7/+1
I used the existing anchors generated by Docbook, so the anchor part should be a no-op. This could be useful depending on the infrastructure we choose to use, and it is better to be explicit than rely on Docbook's id generating algorithms. I got rid of the metadata segments of the Markdown files, because they are outdated, inaccurate, and could make people less willing to change them without speaking with the author.
2020-05-03treewide: use https for nixos.org and hydra.nixos.orgPavol Rusnak1-1/+1
tarballs.nixos.org is omitted from the change because urls from there are always hashed and checked
2020-04-02nixpkgs manual preface: change howoldis link to status page linkKyle Sferrazza1-1/+1
2019-10-30nixpkgs manual: various improvements in introductionFrederik Rietdijk1-0/+52
- rename to preface to be inline with NixOS manual - refer to other manuals - use https - change example channel to 19.09