Missing man page for nixos-container

[fuzzy-id]

There is no useful online help for nixos-container. nixos-container --help only lists syntax but no semantics. A man page which describes the workings of this tool would be helpful here.

[matthiasbeyer]

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I strongly agree with you. Meanwhile, you can have a look here.

[Profpatsch]

nixos-container seems to be deserted in a lot of ways. Probably caused by docker becoming the de-facto tool and machinectl mostly replacing the need for nixos-container. But I agree that better documentation (or at least a deprecation notice) should be added to the tool.

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[matthiasbeyer]

still important to me

[Profpatsch]

@matthiasbeyer nixos-container is implemented directly in nixpkgs, do you want to contribute an initial manpage?
https://github.com/profpatsch/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl#L1

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