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John Ericson
2aa6e0f084 Expand manual on derivation outputs
Note, this includes some text adapted from from Eelco's dissertation
2025-02-27 02:13:36 -05:00
John Ericson
cafefed421 Rename to "content-address*ing* derivation"
"content-address*ed*" derivation is misleading because all derivations
are *themselves* content-addressed. What may or may not be
content-addressed is not derivation itself, but the *output* of the
derivation.

The outputs are not *part* of the derivation (for then the derivation
wouldn't be complete before we built it) but rather separate entities
produced by the derivation.

"content-adddress*ed*" is not correctly because it can only describe
what the derivation *is*, and that is not what we are trying to do.

"content-address*ing*" is correct because it describes what the
derivation *does* --- it produces content-addressed data.
2025-02-10 01:12:56 -05:00
John Ericson
e80d333777
Document Store Derivations and Deriving Paths (#12290)
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>
2025-02-10 01:30:07 +00:00