15 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Will Dietz	3d974d31fa	editline: wip	2018-10-29 08:44:58 -05:00
Sean Seefried	2ef8f0608c	Add to glossary and clarify garbage collection ... While trying to understand garbage collection it was not immediately clear that only the runtime dependency closure of output paths would be kept (instead of the build-time dependency closure). This commit attempts to clarify this by expanding some of the glossary definitions and extending the Garbage Collection section.	2018-04-12 19:23:24 +10:00
Will Dietz	e50d7335bf	doc: linenoise -> linenoise-ng	2017-11-27 18:36:20 -06:00
davidak	92bcb61127	replace "Mac OS X" with "macOS" ... except in older release notes where the name was actually Mac OS X.	2017-07-30 12:26:17 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra	c5f23f10a8	Replace readline by linenoise ... Using linenoise avoids a license compatibility issue (#1356), is a lot smaller and doesn't pull in ncurses.	2017-05-10 18:37:42 +02:00
kballou	00b6c6d0c3	Fix small grammar issue about page ... Fix subject-verb agreement issue in introduction/about.	2017-04-19 09:27:28 -06:00
Dan Connolly	b39ec410ee	context for introducing runtime dependencies ... The first occurrence of "runtime dependencies" wasn't related to the surrounding narrative.	2016-02-18 23:29:00 -06:00
Daniel Hahler	e659978ced	Fix typos: s/the the/the/	2015-03-06 16:43:22 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra	e5891f2ea8	Use https://cache.nixos.org instead of http://cache.nixos.org	2014-12-09 13:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra	5f04da905f	Intro: Mention binary caches	2014-11-25 15:55:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra	103e4e43cc	Update quick start section	2014-11-24 16:50:46 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra	57f6463ec0	Tweak some chapter titles	2014-09-16 14:38:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra	d0608da13f	Drop "service deployment" bla bla	2014-09-16 14:36:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra	8b760182cd	Drop reference to FreeBSD	2014-09-16 14:35:11 +02:00
Mikey Ariel	8901acc976	Restructuring the Nix manual	2014-08-27 18:41:09 +02:00

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