derivation building environment - Nix

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TheMatten

Is there some info about how pure environments in which packages get built work?

Torsten Schmits

can you explain this further?

TheMatten

Okay, I think this is what I was searching for - https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#ssec-derivation - it seems to describe what mkDerivation does