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define "store derivation" #7485

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Store derivations are a low-level, internal representation of build tasks in Nix, and have store paths with extension `.drv`.
By default, if you pass the path to a store derivation to a `nix` subcommand, the command will operate on the [output path]s of the derivation.
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Store derivations are a low-level, internal representation of build tasks in Nix, and have store paths with extension `.drv`.
By default, if you pass the path to a store derivation to a `nix` subcommand, the command will operate on the [output path]s of the derivation.
By default, if you pass a [store derivation] path to a `nix` subcommand, the command will operate on the [output path]s of the derivation.

@thufschmitt thufschmitt merged commit cfd6c7f into NixOS:master Jan 2, 2023
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Discussed in Nix team meeting 2023-01-02:

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