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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-01-09 19:57:44 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2013-01-09 19:57:44 +0100
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parent44b6be7744da9cf5513e4e6361681ea277f69097 (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
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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}