From b9e5c0a949fa627da55ea53fd71dfa96ad8a2b4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 19:57:44 +0100
Subject: 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.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/guix.texi')

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index dc3473405e..1784642c7b 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -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}
-- 
cgit 1.4.1