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For example, github:edolstra/dwarffs is more-or-less equivalent to https://github.com/edolstra/dwarffs.git. It's a much faster way to get GitHub repositories: it fetches tarballs rather than entire Git repositories. It also allows fetching specific revisions by hash without specifying a ref (e.g. a branch name): github:edolstra/dwarffs/41c0c1bf292ea3ac3858ff393b49ca1123dbd553
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.