Package naming conventions

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An attempt to document the unofficial naming conventions used for packages in the nixpkgs repository

Suffix Use
-bin Binaries that aren't compiled by nix
-fresh
-still
-wrapped Provides configuration options to the -unwrapped derivation
-unwrapped Indicator that there is a wrapped version