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Clarify docs on deleting generations, including fixing a mistake

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Deleting store info corrected (there is a foot-gun in Nix with
`--delete-generations old`!)

Also a few things are cleaned up based on feedback.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
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doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-collect-garbage.md
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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ These options are for deleting old [profiles] prior to deleting unreachable [sto
Delete all generations of profiles older than the specified amount (except for the generations that were active at that point in time).
*period* is a value such as `30d`, which would mean 30 days.
This is the equivalent of invoking [`nix-env --delete-generations <period>`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-env/delete-generations.md#generations-days) on each found profile.
This is the equivalent of invoking [`nix-env --delete-generations <period>`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-env/delete-generations.md#generations-time) on each found profile.
See the documentation of that command for additional information about the *period* argument.
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