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From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
31/64: Remove redundant stuff |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:39:00 +0000 |
civodul pushed a commit to branch nix
in repository guix.
commit d23931f3a448fddc43d81f774fa83797729910e7
Author: Eelco Dolstra <address@hidden>
Date: Tue Apr 8 16:10:25 2014 +0200
Remove redundant stuff
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doc/manual/introduction.xml | 64 -------------------------------------------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction.xml b/doc/manual/introduction.xml
index 21b1df1..e0300dc 100644
--- a/doc/manual/introduction.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/introduction.xml
@@ -254,33 +254,6 @@ xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">NixOS
homepage</link>.</para>
</section>
-<section><title>About us</title>
-
-<para>Nix was originally developed at the <link
-xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/">Department of Information and
-Computing Sciences</link>, Utrecht University by the <link
-xlink:href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Trace/WebHome">TraCE
-project</link> (2003-2008). The project was funded by the Software
-Engineering Research Program <link
-xlink:href="http://www.jacquard.nl/">Jacquard</link> to improve the
-support for variability in software systems. Further funding was
-provided by the NIRICT LaQuSo Build Farm project. Development is
-currently supported by <link
-xlink:href="http://www.logicblox.com/">LogicBlox</link>.</para>
-
-</section>
-
-
-<section><title>About this manual</title>
-
-<para>This manual tells you how to install and use Nix and how to
-write Nix expressions for software not already in the Nix Packages
-collection. It also discusses some advanced topics, such as setting
-up distributed multi-platform building.</para>
-
-</section>
-
-
<section><title>License</title>
<para>Nix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -297,41 +270,4 @@ Lesser General Public License for more details.</para>
</section>
-<section><title>More information</title>
-
-<para>Some background information on Nix can be found in a number of
-papers. The ICSE 2004 paper <citetitle
-xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/immdsd-icse2004-final.pdf'>Imposing
-a Memory Management Discipline on Software Deployment</citetitle>
-discusses the hashing mechanism used to ensure reliable dependency
-identification and non-interference between different versions and
-variants of packages. The LISA 2004 paper <citetitle
-xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf'>Nix:
-A Safe and Policy-Free System for Software Deployment</citetitle>
-gives a more general discussion of Nix from a system-administration
-perspective. The CBSE 2005 paper <citetitle
-xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/eupfcdm-cbse2005-final.pdf'>Efficient
-Upgrading in a Purely Functional Component Deployment Model
-</citetitle> is about transparent patch deployment in Nix. The SCM-12
-paper <citetitle
-xlink:href='http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/servicecm-scm12-final.pdf'>
-Service Configuration Management</citetitle> shows how services (e.g.,
-web servers) can be deployed and managed through Nix. An overview of
-NixOS is given in the JFP article <citetitle
-xlink:href="http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/pubs/nixos-jfp-final.pdf">NixOS:
-A Purely Functional Linux Distribution</citetitle>. The Nix homepage
-has <link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/docs/papers.html">an up-to-date
-list of Nix-related papers</link>.</para>
-
-<para>Nix is the subject of Eelco Dolstra’s PhD thesis <citetitle
-xlink:href="http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2006-0118-200031/index.htm">The
-Purely Functional Software Deployment Model</citetitle>, which
-contains most of the papers listed above.</para>
-
-<para>Nix has a homepage at <link
-xlink:href="http://nixos.org/"/>.</para>
-
-</section>
-
-
</chapter>
- 21/64: forceString: Show position info, (continued)
- 21/64: forceString: Show position info, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 25/64: Show position info in attribute selection errors, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 29/64: nix-shell --pure: Keep the user's $PAGER, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 27/64: Update release notes, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 26/64: Install systemd units, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 20/64: forceAttrs: Show position info, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 22/64: derivation: Don't require certain function arguments, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 30/64: Update installation instructions, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 23/64: Show position info in string concatenation / addition errors, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 35/64: Don't barf when installing as root, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 31/64: Remove redundant stuff,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- 24/64: Show position info in Boolean operations, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 38/64: Fix test evaluation, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 34/64: Add docbook icons to the distribution, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 37/64: Bump date, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 39/64: nix-env: Minor change to '--delete-generations Nd' semantics, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 33/64: If a .drv cannot be parsed, show its path, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 40/64: trunk -> master, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 17/64: Pass position information to primop calls, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 32/64: Simplify quick start section, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05
- 43/64: Set build-max-jobs to the number of available cores by default, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/05