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Clarify that not all nix packages will use the default build phases

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John Chapman 2021-10-09 12:03:34 +11:00
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doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-shell.md
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@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ $ nix-shell '<nixpkgs>' -A pan
[nix-shell]$ ./pan/gui/pan
```
Note: Other packages may override these phases (the unpackPhase,
configurePhase, buildPhase, etc).
For those, it may be required to do something like
`eval "$configurePhase-configurePhase"` or `eval "$configurePhase"`
depending on how that package's nix files have been written.
To clear the environment first, and do some additional automatic
initialisation of the interactive shell: