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1<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
2 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
3 xml:id="chap-introduction">
4
5<title>Introduction</title>
6
7<para>This manual tells you how to write packages for the Nix Packages
8collection (Nixpkgs). Thus it’s for packagers and developers who want
9to add packages to Nixpkgs. End users are kindly referred to the
10<link xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/trunk/tarball/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual">Nix
11manual</link>.</para>
12
13<para>This manual does not describe the syntax and semantics of the
14Nix expression language, which are given in the Nix manual in the
15<link
16xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nix/trunk/tarball/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual/#chap-writing-nix-expressions">chapter
17on writing Nix expressions</link>. It only describes the facilities
18provided by Nixpkgs to make writing packages easier, such as the
19standard build environment (<literal>stdenv</literal>).</para>
20
21</chapter>