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doc: guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user'. 

Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/19315>.
Reported by rekado <rekado@elephly.net>.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Adjust text to new guix-daemon
  behavior introduced in commit 15ddeff.
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Ludovic Courtès 2015-01-04 23:42:51 +01:00
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@ -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: