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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2008-06-17 14:19:59 +0000
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* Quick start section.
* Updated some packages that are referenced in that section.

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 <title>Introduction</title>
 
-<para>Bla</para>
+<para>This manual tells you how to write packages for the Nix Packages
+collection (Nixpkgs).  Thus it’s for packagers and developers who want
+to add packages to Nixpkgs.  End users are kindly referred to the
+<link xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/unstable/manual/">Nix
+manual</link>.</para>
 
-</chapter>
\ No newline at end of file
+<para>This manual does not describe the syntax and semantics of the
+Nix expression language, which are given in the Nix manual in the
+<link
+xlink:href="http://nixos.org/releases/nix/unstable/manual/#chap-writing-nix-expressions">chapter
+on writing Nix expressions</link>.  It only describes the facilities
+provided by Nixpkgs to make writing packages easier, such as the
+standard build environment (<literal>stdenv</literal>).</para>
+
+</chapter>