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clarification on extra attributes

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Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
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doc/manual/src/language/derivations.md
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@ -114,7 +114,11 @@ It outputs an attribute set, and produces a [store derivation](@docroot@/glossar
- Every other attribute is passed as an environment variable to the builder.
Attribute values are translated to environment variables as follows:
- Strings and numbers are just passed verbatim.
- Strings are passed unchanged.
- Integral numbers are converted to decimal notation.
- Floating point numbers are converted to simple decimal or scientific notation with a preset precision.
- A *path* (e.g., `../foo/sources.tar`) causes the referenced file
to be copied to the store; its location in the store is put in