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 Haskell parser, evaluator and type checker for the Nix language.
 
 ## Prerequisites
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-Nix is installed and in your `$PATH`. This is so that `nix-store` can be used
-for interacting with store paths, until `hnix-store` is ready.
+Until `hnix-store` is ready, `nix-store` is still used for interacting with store paths, so HNix still requires Nix to be installed and available through `$PATH`.
 
 ## Getting Started