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doc: add code comment clarifying the meaning of legacyPackages
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Luc Perkins
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}).nixos.manual.x86_64-linux;
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# The "legacy" in `legacyPackages` doesn't imply that the packages exposed
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# through this attribute are "legacy" packages. Instead, `legacyPackages`
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# is used here as a substitute attribute name for `packages`. The problem
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# with `packages` is that it makes operations like `nix flake show
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# nixpkgs` unusably slow due to the sheer number of packages the Nix CLI
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# needs to iterate through. But when the Nix CLI sees a `legacyPackages`
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# attribute it displays `omitted` instead of iterating through all
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# packages, which keeps `nix flake show` on Nixpkgs reasonably fast,
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# though less information rich.
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legacyPackages = forAllSystems (system: import ./. { inherit system; });
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nixosModules = {