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diff --git a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi index 1b081a820e..6026f589a8 100644 --- a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi +++ b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi @@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ reference. Guix provides a very useful feature that may be quite foreign to newcomers: @emph{profiles}. They are a way to group package installations together and all users -on a same system are free to use as many profiles as they want. +on the same system are free to use as many profiles as they want. Whether you're a developer or not, you may find that multiple profiles bring you great power and flexibility. While they shift the paradigm somewhat compared to @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ shells, each of them running different profiles. @item Isolation: Programs from one profile will not use programs from the other, and -they user can even install different versions of the same programs to the two +the user can even install different versions of the same programs to the two profiles without conflict. @item @@ -840,8 +840,10 @@ This makes multiple profiles storage-efficient. @item Reproducible: when used with declarative manifests, a profile can be fully specified by the Guix commit that was active when it was set up. This means -that the exact same profile can be @uref{https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/multi-dimensional-transactions-and-rollbacks-oh-my/, set up anywhere, anytime}, with just the -commit information. See the section on @ref{Reproducible profiles}. +that the exact same profile can be +@uref{https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/multi-dimensional-transactions-and-rollbacks-oh-my/, +set up anywhere and anytime}, with just the commit information. See the +section on @ref{Reproducible profiles}. @item Easier upgrades and maintenance: Multiple profiles make it easy to keep @@ -1012,7 +1014,7 @@ the profile is loaded, you've got two options: @item Either export the variable manually, e.g. @example -export MANPATH=/path/to/profile$@{MANPATH:+:@}$MANPATH" +export MANPATH=/path/to/profile$@{MANPATH:+:@}$MANPATH @end example @item |