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@@ -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}