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@ -80,11 +80,6 @@ package won’t be built or downloaded a second time. At the same time,
it is not possible for one user to inject a Trojan horse into a
package that might be used by another user.</para>
<!--
<para>More details can be found in Section 3 of our <a
href="docs/papers.html#securesharing">ASE 2005 paper</a>.</para>
-->
</simplesect>
@ -198,33 +193,10 @@ collection</emphasis> (Nixpkgs).</para>
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Service deployment</title>
<para>Nix can be used not only for rolling out packages, but also
complete <emphasis>configurations</emphasis> of services. This is
done by treating all the static bits of a service (such as software
packages, configuration files, control scripts, static web pages,
etc.) as “packages” that can be built by Nix expressions. As a
result, all the features above apply to services as well: for
instance, you can roll back a web server configuration if a
configuration change turns out to be undesirable, you can easily have
multiple instances of a service (e.g., a test and production server),
and because the whole service is built in a purely functional way from
a Nix expression, it is repeatable so you can easily reproduce the
service on another machine.</para>
<!--
<para>You can read more about this in our <a
href="docs/papers.html#servicecm">SCM-12 paper</a>.</para>
-->
</simplesect>
<simplesect><title>Portability</title>
<para>Nix should run on most Unix systems, including Linux and Mac OS
X.
X.</para>
</simplesect>