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4 <title>NixOS Reference Pages</title>
5 <info>
6 <author>
7 <personname><firstname>Eelco</firstname><surname>Dolstra</surname></personname>
8 <contrib>Author</contrib>
9 </author>
10 <author>
11 <personname><othername>The Nixpkgs/NixOS contributors</othername></personname>
12 <contrib>Author</contrib>
13 </author>
14 <copyright><year>2007-2022</year><holder>Eelco Dolstra and the Nixpkgs/NixOS contributors</holder>
15 </copyright>
16 </info>
17 <refentry>
18 <refmeta>
19 <refentrytitle><filename>configuration.nix</filename>
20 </refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
21 <refmiscinfo class="source">NixOS</refmiscinfo>
22 <!-- <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo> -->
23 </refmeta>
24 <refnamediv>
25 <refname><filename>configuration.nix</filename></refname>
26 <refpurpose>NixOS system configuration specification</refpurpose>
27 </refnamediv>
28 <refsection>
29 <title>Description</title>
30 <para>
31 The file <filename>/etc/nixos/configuration.nix</filename> contains the
32 declarative specification of your NixOS system configuration. The command
33 <command>nixos-rebuild</command> takes this file and realises the system
34 configuration specified therein.
35 </para>
36 </refsection>
37 <refsection>
38 <title>Options</title>
39 <para>
40 You can use the following options in <filename>configuration.nix</filename>.
41 </para>
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