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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 00737850fd..12a1808137 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ @include version.texi @copying -Copyright @copyright{} 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic Courtès@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013, 2014 Andreas Enge@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov @@ -830,16 +830,15 @@ current generation of the user's default profile. Thus, users can add @file{$HOME/.guix-profile/bin} to their @code{PATH} environment variable, and so on. -In a multi-user setup, user profiles must be stored in a place -registered as a @dfn{garbage-collector root}, which -@file{$HOME/.guix-profile} points to (@pxref{Invoking guix gc}). That -directory is normally +In a multi-user setup, user profiles are stored in a place registered as +a @dfn{garbage-collector root}, which @file{$HOME/.guix-profile} points +to (@pxref{Invoking guix gc}). That directory is normally @code{@var{localstatedir}/profiles/per-user/@var{user}}, where @var{localstatedir} is the value passed to @code{configure} as -@code{--localstatedir}, and @var{user} is the user name. It must be -created by @code{root}, with @var{user} as the owner. When it does not -exist, or is not owned by @var{user}, @command{guix package} emits an -error about it. +@code{--localstatedir}, and @var{user} is the user name. The +@file{per-user} directory is created when @command{guix-daemon} is +started, and the @var{user} sub-directory is created by @command{guix +package}. The @var{options} can be among the following: |