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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-04-18 15:37:20 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-04-20 12:13:16 +0200
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import: Remove Nix importer.
This importer has suffered from bitrot and no longer works with current
Nix and Nixpkgs.  See <https://bugs.gnu.org/32339> and
<https://bugs.gnu.org/36255>.

* guix/import/snix.scm, guix/scripts/import/nix.scm,
tests/snix.scm: Remove.
* Makefile.am (MODULES, SCM_TESTS): Remove them.
* guix/scripts/import.scm (importers): Remove "nix".
* build-aux/test-env.in: Remove NIXPKGS variable.
* configure.ac: Remove '--with-nixpkgs' option.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Remove bit about "guix import
nix".
* etc/completion/fish/guix.fish: Likewise.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 58bcfbdbb5..2fe7ad3a2a 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -11417,36 +11417,6 @@ and outputs a package expression:
 guix import json hello.json
 @end example
 
-@item nix
-Import metadata from a local copy of the source of the
-@uref{https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/, Nixpkgs distribution}@footnote{This
-relies on the @command{nix-instantiate} command of
-@uref{https://nixos.org/nix/, Nix}.}.  Package definitions in Nixpkgs are
-typically written in a mixture of Nix-language and Bash code.  This
-command only imports the high-level package structure that is written in
-the Nix language.  It normally includes all the basic fields of a
-package definition.
-
-When importing a GNU package, the synopsis and descriptions are replaced
-by their canonical upstream variant.
-
-Usually, you will first need to do:
-
-@example
-export NIX_REMOTE=daemon
-@end example
-
-@noindent
-so that @command{nix-instantiate} does not try to open the Nix database.
-
-As an example, the command below imports the package definition of
-LibreOffice (more precisely, it imports the definition of the package
-bound to the @code{libreoffice} top-level attribute):
-
-@example
-guix import nix ~/path/to/nixpkgs libreoffice
-@end example
-
 @item hackage
 @cindex hackage
 Import metadata from the Haskell community's central package archive