Low-level derivations: Difference between revisions

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Standard environment: Cite Nixpkgs manual
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=== Standard environment ===
=== Standard environment ===


For practicality purposes, let's compare this to the standard environment way of doing this. Using <code>stdenv.mkDerivation</code> gives us access to the common Linux utilities pre-included for us, so we don't have to do the package importing ourselves:
For practicality purposes, let's compare this to the standard environment way of doing this. Using <code>stdenv.mkDerivation</code> gives us access to the common Linux utilities pre-included for us{{cite manual|nixpkgs|sec-tools-of-stdenv|Tools provided by stdenv}}, so we don't have to do the package importing ourselves:


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