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nix help pages are broken #14062

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Describe the bug

Commands like nix --help fail

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Run nix --help
  2. Observe the following error:
error:
       … while evaluating the lowdown help text

       … while calling the 'import' builtin
         at «string»:18:12:
           17|     ;
           18|   inherit (import <nix/utils.nix>)
             |            ^
           19|     attrsToList

       … while realising the context of a path

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full, detailed trace)

       error: operation 'addToStore' is not supported by store 'dummy://'

Expected behavior

Help pages are displayed normally

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nix (Nix) 2.32.0pre20250923_73d3ab0

Additional context

There seems to have been a lot of changes to dummy stores recently :)

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