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Let's step in line with time and document more realistic values.
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@ -430,15 +430,15 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
<listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system
name of the current installation, such as
<literal>i686-linux</literal> or
<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal>. Nix can only build derivations
<literal>x86_64-darwin</literal>. Nix can only build derivations
whose <literal>system</literal> attribute equals the value
specified here. In general, it never makes sense to modify this
value from its default, since you can use it to ‘lie’ about the
platform you are building on (e.g., perform a Mac OS build on a
Linux machine; the result would obviously be wrong). It only
makes sense if the Nix binaries can run on multiple platforms,
e.g., ‘universal binaries’ that run on <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> and
<literal>i686-darwin</literal>.</para>
e.g., ‘universal binaries’ that run on <literal>x86_64-linux</literal> and
<literal>i686-linux</literal>.</para>
<para>It defaults to the canonical Nix system name detected by
<filename>configure</filename> at build time.</para></listitem>