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@@ -394,8 +394,10 @@ flake's lock file, to the target. This makes the lock file of a flake the single place that pins, e.g., nixpkgs, for flakes as well as for `NIX_PATH`. It works like the `flake` source type, but delivers the selected input instead of the flake, so the target path becomes a symlink to the input's -store path, and the input's own inputs get garbage collector roots in -`.populate/flake-inputs/<name>`. +store path. The inputs that the input's own lock file pins, which evaluating +the input needs, get delivered as well, with garbage collector roots in +`.populate/flake-inputs/<name>`. An input without a lock file comes without +its inputs, because locking it would change it. Because the target path points at the store path named by the lock file, it can be used in `NIX_PATH` as well as by flakes evaluated on the target, @@ -410,7 +412,8 @@ Supported attributes: * `name` - name of the input to deliver. Inputs of inputs are separated by `/`, - e.g. `stockholm/nixpkgs`. + e.g. `stockholm/nixpkgs`, and resolved as the flake's lock file resolves + them, so an input that follows another one names the other one. * `fetchOnTarget` (optional) - boolean that controls whether the target fetches the input itself instead |