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 - https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
 
-    Chapter 1:
+  Chapter 1:
     Existing software deployment models and issues faced with them; motivation for developing Nix, features of the Nix deployment system
 
   - Reading time: 15 min
   - Author: Eelco Dolstra
   - Created: 2006
+
+  Chapter 2:
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+    2.1: The Nix Store, isolation of components, cryptographic hashes, non-destructive upgrades, prevention of undeclared dependencies, closures
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+    2.2: Use of Nix expressions to build software, structure of Nixpkgs collection, Hello and SUbversion as examples of derivations.
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+    2.3: Package Management: Installations, updates and rollbacks, user environments, uninstalling, garbage collection
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+    2.4: Store derivations: Definition, `.drv` files in Nix store. `nix-instantiate`, `nix-store --realise`. Allows various deployment policies, including source and binary.
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+    2.5. Deployment models. Mechanisms `nix-instantiate` and `nix-store`. Models: Manual download; vesion management system; channels; one-click installation
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+    2.6: Transparent source/binary deployment: `nix-push` and `nix-pull`. Pre-built substitutes.
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+    - Reading time: 30 min
+
 
 ### Nixpkgs