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John Ericson a654cc2a72 WIP document derivations and deriving paths 
And get rid of "store derivation" nonsense.
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Derivation "ATerm" file format

For historical reasons, derivations are stored on-disk in ATerm format.

Derivations are serialised in one of the following formats:

  • Derive(...)

    For all stable derivations.

  • DrvWithVersion(<version-string>, ...)

    The only version-strings that are in use today are for experimental features: