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Nix Packages 0.7
* The bootstrap process for the standard build environment on Linux
(stdenv-linux) has been improved. It is no longer dependent in its
initial bootstrap stages on the system Glibc, GCC, and other tools.
Rather, Nixpkgs contains a statically linked bash and curl, and uses
that to download other statically linked tools. These are then used
to build a Glibc and dynamically linked versions of all other
tools.
This change also makes the bootstrap process faster. For instance,
GCC is built only once, not thrice.
(Contributed by Armijn Hemel.)
* Many packages have been changed and added, but notably:
- Qt 3 has been added.
- Mysql has been added.
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