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Document Store Derivations and Deriving Paths (#12290)

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This is a big step documenting the store layer on its own, separately from the evaluator (and `builtins.derivation`).

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ It can also execute build plans to produce new data, which are made available to
A build plan itself is a series of *build tasks*, together with their build inputs.
> **Important**
> A build task in Nix is called [derivation](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-derivation).
> A build task in Nix is called [store derivation](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation).
Each build task has a special build input executed as *build instructions* in order to perform the build.
The result of a build task can be input to another build task.