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+# Thorn Avery's Haskell Repo
+
+this flake contains the package management infastructure for building my haskell applications and libraries.
+
+all items in the `packages` output will be avaliable to cabal when building, and thus can be included in cabal files as if they existed on hackage.
+
+## adding an entry
+
+first, add the repository containing the item to the `inputs` of the flake. it must have a `.cabal` file in the root directory.
+
+```
+.
+├── hello-world.cabal
+└── src
+    └── Main.hs
+```
+
+```
+hello-world = {
+  url = "git+ssh://gitea@git.p7.co.nz/thornAvery/hello-world.git";
+  flake = false;
+};
+```
+
+finally, add an entry to [`./packages.nix`](./packages.nix) containing the attribute path to the input:
+
+```
+inputs: [
+  inputs.hello-world
+]
+```