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diff --git a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi index 3f18c41542..82700a48ad 100644 --- a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi +++ b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi @@ -1791,8 +1791,8 @@ where we will store our profiles in the rest of this article. Placing all your profiles in a single directory, with each profile getting its own sub-directory, is somewhat cleaner. This way, each sub-directory will -contain all the symlinks for precisely one profile. Besides, "looping over -profiles" becomes obvious from any programming language (e.g.@: a shell script) by +contain all the symlinks for precisely one profile. Besides, ``looping over +profiles'' becomes obvious from any programming language (e.g.@: a shell script) by simply looping over the sub-directories of @samp{$GUIX_EXTRA_PROFILES}. Note that it's also possible to loop over the output of @@ -1926,7 +1926,7 @@ What about the default profile that Guix keeps in @file{~/.guix-profile}? You can assign it the role you want. Typically you would install the manifest of the packages you want to use all the time. -Alternatively, you could keep it "manifest-less" for throw-away packages +Alternatively, you could keep it ``manifest-less'' for throw-away packages that you would just use for a couple of days. This way makes it convenient to run @@ -1957,7 +1957,7 @@ Manifests come with multiple benefits. In particular, they ease maintenance: @itemize @item When a profile is set up from a manifest, the manifest itself is -self-sufficient to keep a "package listing" around and reinstall the profile +self-sufficient to keep a ``package listing'' around and reinstall the profile later or on a different system. For ad-hoc profiles, we would need to generate a manifest specification manually and maintain the package versions for the packages that don't use the default version. @@ -1994,7 +1994,7 @@ They can be manipulated in Scheme and passed to the various Guix @uref{https://e It's important to understand that while manifests can be used to declare profiles, they are not strictly equivalent: profiles have the side effect that -they "pin" packages in the store, which prevents them from being +they ``pin'' packages in the store, which prevents them from being garbage-collected (@pxref{Invoking guix gc,,, guix, GNU Guix Reference Manual}) and ensures that they will still be available at any point in the future. |