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most modules can be evaluated for their documentation in a very restricted environment that doesn't include all of nixpkgs. this evaluation can then be cached and reused for subsequent builds, merging only documentation that has changed into the cached set. since nixos ships with a large number of modules of which only a few are used in any given config this can save evaluation a huge percentage of nixos options available in any given config. in tests of this caching, despite having to copy most of nixos/, saves about 80% of the time needed to build the system manual, or about two second on the machine used for testing. build time for a full system config shrank from 9.4s to 7.4s, while turning documentation off entirely shortened the build to 7.1s. |
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This directory is temporarily needed while we transition the manual to CommonMark. It stores the output of the ../md-to-db.sh script that converts CommonMark files back to DocBook.
We are choosing to convert the Markdown to DocBook at authoring time instead of manual building time, because we do not want the pandoc toolchain to become part of the NixOS closure.
Do not edit the DocBook files inside this directory or its subdirectories. Instead, edit the corresponding .md file in the normal manual directories, and run ../md-to-db.sh to update the file here.