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clarify definition of "installable"

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the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in
a very long document lacking an overview section.
search did not help because it occurs so often.

- clarify wording in the definition
- add an overview of installable types
- add "installable" to glossary
- link to definition from occurrences of the term
- be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed
- installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation

Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
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Valentin Gagarin 2022-12-01 01:57:02 +01:00
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A symlink to the current *user environment* of a user, e.g.,
`/nix/var/nix/profiles/default`.
- [installable]{#gloss-installable}\
Something that can be realised in the Nix store.
See [installables](./command-ref/new-cli/nix.md#installables) for [`nix` commands](./command-ref/new-cli/nix.md) (experimental) for details.
- [NAR]{#gloss-nar}\
A *N*ix *AR*chive. This is a serialisation of a path in the Nix
store. It can contain regular files, directories and symbolic