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Add to glossary and clarify garbage collection

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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.
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Sean Seefried 2018-04-12 19:23:24 +10:00
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@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ This is because tools such as compilers don’t search in per-packages
directories such as
<filename>/nix/store/5lbfaxb722zp…-openssl-0.9.8d/include</filename>,
so if a package builds correctly on your system, this is because you
specified the dependency explicitly.</para>
specified the dependency explicitly. This takes care of the build-time
dependencies.</para>
<para>Once a package is built, runtime dependencies are found by
scanning binaries for the hash parts of Nix store paths (such as