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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-08-28T16·26+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2014-08-28T16·26+0200
commit9eddf6f0b68e1ac69d56de3c5c0899481ad2c6cf (patch)
treefca6b0383065d6f35f998cf7ea3e3776d40c9375 /doc/manual
parentb5da80e627f6162c7aad6c4b836525717d39c295 (diff)
allowedRequisites: Drop stdenv mention
I don't think it's a good idea to use allowedRequisites for stdenv, so
don't mention it here.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/release-notes.xml6
-rw-r--r--doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml5
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index 36e345ecf273..f64b6cb1749b 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@
   <varname>allowedReferences</varname>. But instead of only enforcing
   to explicitly specify the immediate references, it requires the
   derivation to specify all the dependencies recursively (hence the
-  name, requisites) that are used by the resulting output. This is
-  used in NixOS when rebuilding the stdenv on Linux to ensure that the
-  resulting stdenv doesn't have any surprising dependency, e.g. on
-  bootstrapTools.</para></listitem>
+  name, requisites) that are used by the resulting
+  output.</para></listitem>
 
 </itemizedlist>
 
diff --git a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
index d51f80771ba1..c4f069893371 100644
--- a/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/writing-nix-expressions.xml
@@ -1583,10 +1583,7 @@ allowedReferences = [ foobar ];
     enforces that the output of a derivation cannot have any other
     runtime dependency than <varname>foobar</varname>, and in addition
     it enforces that <varname>foobar</varname> itself doesn't
-    introduce any other dependency itself. This is used in NixOS when
-    rebuilding the stdenv on Linux to ensure that the resulting stdenv
-    doesn't have any surprising dependency, e.g. on
-    bootstrapTools.</para></listitem>
+    introduce any other dependency itself.</para></listitem>
 
   </varlistentry>