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<para>To build the parser, very <emphasis>recent</emphasis> versions
of Bison and Flex are required. (This is because Nix needs GLR
support in Bison and reentrancy support in Flex.) For Bison, you need
version 1.875c or higher (1.875 does <emphasis>not</emphasis> work),
which can be obtained from the <link
xlink:href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison">GNU FTP server</link>.
For Flex, you need version 2.5.31, which is available on <link
xlink:href="http://lex.sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</link>. Slightly
older versions may also work, but ancient versions like the ubiquitous
2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if you modify the
parser or when you are building from the Subversion repository.</para>
version 2.3 or higher (1.875 does <emphasis>not</emphasis> work),
which can be obtained from
the <link xlink:href="ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison">GNU FTP
server</link>. For Flex, you need version 2.5.33, which is available
on <link xlink:href="http://lex.sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</link>.
Slightly older versions may also work, but ancient versions like the
ubiquitous 2.5.4a won't. Note that these are only required if you
modify the parser or when you are building from the Subversion
repository.</para>
<para>Nix uses Sleepycat's Berkeley DB and CWI's ATerm library. These
are included in the Nix source distribution. If you build from the
@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ these packages. Alternatively, if you already have them installed,
you can use <command>configure</command>'s <option>--with-bdb</option>
and <option>--with-aterm</option> options to point to their respective
locations. Note that Berkeley DB <emphasis>must</emphasis> be version
4.4; other versions may not have compatible database formats.</para>
4.5; other versions may not have compatible database formats.</para>
</section>

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<listitem><para>TODO: <command>nix-env</command> now maintains meta
info about installed packages in user
environments.</para></listitem>
info about installed packages in user environments. <option>-q
--xml --meta</option> to show all meta info.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>TODO: <command>nix-env</command>
<option>--set-flag</option>.</para></listitem>
<option>--set-flag</option>. Specific flags:
<literal>active</literal>, <literal>priority</literal>,
<literal>keep</literal>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>nix-env -q</command> now has a flag
<option>--prebuilt-only</option> (<option>-b</option>) that causes
<command>nix-env</command> to show only those derivations whose
output is already in the Nix store or that can be substituted (i.e.,
downloaded from somewhere). In other words, it shows the packages
that can be installed “quickly”, i.e., don’t need to be built from
source.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>TODO: new built-ins