diff --git a/doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..338aa6f3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+      version="5.0">
+
+<title>Advanced Topics</title>
+
+<xi:include href="distributed-builds.xml" />
+
+</part>
diff --git a/doc/manual/builds/enabling-builds.xml b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml
similarity index 88%
rename from doc/manual/builds/enabling-builds.xml
rename to doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml
index 4b45812ee..70f396f81 100644
--- a/doc/manual/builds/enabling-builds.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/advanced-topics/distributed-builds.xml
@@ -2,9 +2,18 @@
       xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
       xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
       version="5.0"
-      xml:id="ch-enabling-builds">
+      xml:id='chap-distributed-builds'>
 
-<title>Enabling Distributed Builds</title>
+<title>Distributed Builds</title>
+
+<para>Nix supports distributed builds, where a local Nix installation can
+forward Nix builds to other machines over the network.  This allows
+multiple builds to be performed in parallel (thus improving
+performance) and allows Nix to perform multi-platform builds in a
+semi-transparent way.  For instance, if you perform a build for a
+<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> on an <literal>i686-linux</literal>
+machine, Nix can automatically forward the build to a
+<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> machine, if available.</para>
 
 <para>You can enable distributed builds by setting the environment
 variable <envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to point to a program that Nix
@@ -41,7 +50,7 @@ example configuration is shown in <xref linkend='ex-remote-systems'
 bits of information:
 
 <orderedlist>
-  
+
   <listitem><para>The name of the remote machine, with optionally the
   user under which the remote build should be performed.  This is
   actually passed as an argument to <command>ssh</command>, so it can
@@ -73,9 +82,9 @@ bits of information:
   <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will only perform the
   derivation on a machine that has the specified features.  For
   instance, the attribute
-  
+
 <programlisting>
-requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];  
+requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];
 </programlisting>
 
   will cause the build to be performed on a machine that has the
@@ -103,4 +112,4 @@ running, they should use the same <envar>NIX_CURRENT_LOAD</envar>
 file.  Maybe in the future <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will
 look at the actual remote load.</para>
 
-</chapter>
\ No newline at end of file
+</chapter>
diff --git a/doc/manual/builds/build-farm.xml b/doc/manual/builds/build-farm.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e0e9f10f1..000000000
--- a/doc/manual/builds/build-farm.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-      version="5.0"
-      xml:id='chap-distributed-builds'>
-
-<title>Distributed Builds</title>
-
-<partintro>
-<para>Nix supports distributed builds, where a local Nix installation can
-forward Nix builds to other machines over the network.  This allows
-multiple builds to be performed in parallel (thus improving
-performance) and allows Nix to perform multi-platform builds in a
-semi-transparent way.  For instance, if you perform a build for a
-<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> on an <literal>i686-linux</literal>
-machine, Nix can automatically forward the build to a
-<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> machine, if available.</para>
-</partintro>
-
-<xi:include href="enabling-builds.xml" />
-
-</part>
diff --git a/doc/manual/manual.xml b/doc/manual/manual.xml
index 5c46f303a..b784bb5f3 100644
--- a/doc/manual/manual.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/manual.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
   <xi:include href="installation/installation.xml" />
   <xi:include href="packages/package-management.xml" />
   <xi:include href="expressions/writing-nix-expressions.xml" />
-  <xi:include href="builds/build-farm.xml" />
+  <xi:include href="advanced-topics/advanced-topics.xml" />
   <xi:include href="command-ref/command-ref.xml" />
   <xi:include href="troubleshooting/troubleshooting.xml" />
   <xi:include href="glossary/glossary.xml" />