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@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ strings prefixed to the directory names are cryptographic hashes\[1\] of
*all* inputs involved in building the package — sources, dependencies,
compiler flags, and so on. So if two packages differ in any way, they
end up in different locations in the file system, so they don’t
interfere with each other. [figure\_title](#fig-user-environments) shows
a part of a typical Nix store.
interfere with each other. Here is what a part of a typical Nix store
looks like:
![User environments](../figures/user-environments.png)
![](../figures/user-environments.png)
Of course, you wouldn’t want to type
@ -30,11 +30,10 @@ package we want to use, but this is not very convenient since changing
Nix uses is to create directory trees of symlinks to *activated*
packages. These are called *user environments* and they are packages
themselves (though automatically generated by `nix-env`), so they too
reside in the Nix store. For instance, in
[figure\_title](#fig-user-environments) the user environment
`/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env` contains a symlink to just
Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure indicate symlinks). This would be
what we would obtain if we had done
reside in the Nix store. For instance, in the figure above, the user
environment `/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env` contains a symlink to
just Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure indicate symlinks). This
would be what we would obtain if we had done
$ nix-env -i subversion