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doc/manual/src/package-management/profiles.md
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@ -10,12 +10,13 @@ in a directory
`/nix/store/dpmvp969yhdqs7lm2r1a3gng7pyq6vy4-subversion-1.1.3/`, while
another version might be stored in
`/nix/store/5mq2jcn36ldlmh93yj1n8s9c95pj7c5s-subversion-1.1.2`. The long
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. Here is what a part of a typical Nix store
looks like:
strings prefixed to the directory names are cryptographic hashes (to be
precise, 160-bit truncations of SHA-256 hashes encoded in a base-32
notation) 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. Here is what a part of a typical Nix
store looks like:
![](../figures/user-environments.png)
@ -113,6 +114,3 @@ All `nix-env` operations work on the profile pointed to by
$ nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/other-profile -i subversion
This will *not* change the `~/.nix-profile` symlink.
1. 160-bit truncations of SHA-256 hashes encoded in a base-32 notation,
to be precise.