Why is fetchTarball not mentioned in "Chapter 11. Fetchers" of the Nixpkgs manual?

[toraritte]

@jtojnar

Just for completion, builtins.fetchTarball serves the same purpose as fetchzip – download an archive and then unpack it into store. Despite the name and docs, both support tarballs and zip files. (Nix uses libarchive, and fetchzip depends on unzip and uses gnutar from stdenv .)

What’s more confusing is that fetchurl also takes tarballs (e.g., see example in the Nix manual).

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Anyway, appreciate the write-up, and it seems to be most comprehensive summary of fetchers. Thank you for taking the time!

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