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| author | Arnout Engelen <arnout@bzzt.net> | 2022-07-28 16:42:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnout Engelen <arnout@bzzt.net> | 2022-07-28 16:54:32 +0200 |
| commit | 0dd7792b4cdfba6ee700864919f358187163e850 (patch) | |
| tree | 03df00c6d08d4be7e460fc7bd594148f88dbe04d /doc/using | |
| parent | 8f73de28e63988da02426ebb17209e3ae07f103b (diff) | |
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nixpkgs/doc: remove unused `unfree.xml`
This section was broken out into its own file in efb55d2a42e but apparently never actually got included anywhere. Since then a more detailed section on using unfree packages has been introduced. Copied the introduction and removed the rest of the file.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/using/configuration.chapter.md | 5 |
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diff --git a/doc/using/configuration.chapter.md b/doc/using/configuration.chapter.md index 2445aa32f2a..3c46dc3227a 100644 --- a/doc/using/configuration.chapter.md +++ b/doc/using/configuration.chapter.md @@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ The difference between a package being unsupported on some system and being brok ## Installing unfree packages {#sec-allow-unfree} +All users of Nixpkgs are free software users, and many users (and developers) of Nixpkgs want to limit and tightly control their exposure to unfree software. +At the same time, many users need (or want) to run some specific pieces of proprietary software. +Nixpkgs includes some expressions for unfree software packages. +By default unfree software cannot be installed and doesn’t show up in searches. + There are several ways to tweak how Nix handles a package which has been marked as unfree. - To temporarily allow all unfree packages, you can use an environment variable for a single invocation of the nix tools: |