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diff --git a/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md b/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md index e4970f7e964..ac518cee524 100644 --- a/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md +++ b/doc/stdenv/meta.chapter.md @@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ For details, see [Licenses](#sec-meta-license). A list of the maintainers of this Nix expression. Maintainers are defined in [`nixpkgs/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix). There is no restriction to becoming a maintainer, just add yourself to that list in a separate commit titled “maintainers: add alice”, and reference maintainers with `maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ alice bob ]`. +### `mainProgram` {#var-meta-mainProgram} + +The name of the main binary for the package. This effects the binary `nix run` executes and falls back to the name of the package. Example: `"rg"` + ### `priority` {#var-meta-priority} The *priority* of the package, used by `nix-env` to resolve file name conflicts between packages. See the Nix manual page for `nix-env` for details. Example: `"10"` (a low-priority package). |