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Valentin Gagarin 08145a5be5 contributor guide: emphasize solving a well-specified problem with each pull request
this moves the orientation step to the beginning, and adds notes how to
make sure that a problem is well-spefified and the according change more
likely to get accepted

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
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Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

Contributing

Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.