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194ba8a02f docs: guide to installables docs in installable commands' docs
The installables syntax is not documented in any of the man pages or
docbook pages for any of those individual commands. And while these
commands really should at least peripherally individually document how
installables work, in the meantime we can at least direct people to the
right place.

This commit also clarifies the unexpected fact that `nix profile remove`
and `nix profile upgrade` do *not* take installables.

Change-Id: I3b1453cb197a613bbab639c66a466365c3592c6d
2024-04-29 08:06:05 -06:00
044c117a9f Merge pull request #9481 from iFreilicht/disallow-nix-search-without-search-terms
nix search: Disallow empty regex

(cherry picked from commit 1c260fa6d1f47d83954792771d0614db163cc3bc)
Change-Id: Iaaf3605c24a342fcb05d0b534a9f305533d3b5fa
2024-03-04 08:40:12 +01:00
Alexander Schmolck
afd9bd787d Also use long options in src/nix/*.md 2023-05-17 08:10:30 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
2af9fd20c6 clarify definition of "installable"
the term was hard to discover, as its definition and explanation were in
a very long document lacking an overview section.
search did not help because it occurs so often.

- clarify wording in the definition
- add an overview of installable types
- add "installable" to glossary
- link to definition from occurrences of the term
- be more precise about where store derivation outputs are processed
- installable Nix expressions must evaluate to a derivation

Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-03-05 01:46:17 +01:00
Fishhh
b42358b9be
Add --exclude flag to nix search
If a package's attribute path, description or name contains matches for any of the
regexes specified via `-e` or `--exclude` that package is excluded from
the final output.
2022-06-07 18:25:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9de689a6e
Add 'nix search' manpage 2020-12-21 13:32:27 +01:00