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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-01-09 19:57:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-01-09 19:57:44 +0100 |
| commit | b9e5c0a949fa627da55ea53fd71dfa96ad8a2b4b (patch) | |
| tree | 1347ee21801cb69dfe0e97c5a560e2ef268ae42b /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 44b6be7744da9cf5513e4e6361681ea277f69097 (diff) | |
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guix-package: Create ~/.guix-profile when it doesn't exist.
* guix-package.in (guix-package): Create the %USER-ENVIRONMENT-DIRECTORY
symlink if it doesn't exist yet.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix-package): Document it.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index dc3473405e..1784642c7b 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -428,6 +428,12 @@ the transaction. Upon completion, a new profile is created, but previous generations of the profile remain available, should the user want to roll back. +For each user, a symlink to the user's default profile is automatically +created in @file{$HOME/.guix-profile}. This symlink always point to the +current generation of the user's default profile. Thus, users can add +@file{$HOME/.guix-profile/bin} to their @code{PATH} environment +variable, and so on. + @table @code @item --install=@var{package} |