Building Nix derivations manually in nix-shell

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When writing, debugging, or otherwise working with Nix expressions, it is often useful to run a build part of the way through, or to run it manually in a shell. For instance, perhaps you want to test some development version of a tool against a package and want to iterate quickly. Or, a build is broken and you want to look at it more closely than nix-build --keep-failed makes convenient. Most…

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