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doc/manual/packages/basic-package-mgmt.xml
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@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ on the set of installed applications. That is, there might be lots of
applications present on the system (possibly in many different
versions), but users can have a specific selection of those active —
where “active” just means that it appears in a directory
in the user’s <envar>PATH</envar>. Such a view on the set of
in the user’s <literal>PATH</literal>. Such a view on the set of
installed applications is called a <emphasis>user
environment</emphasis>, which is just a directory tree consisting of
symlinks to the files of the active applications. </para>

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doc/manual/packages/profiles.xml
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@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ store.</para>
$ /nix/store/dpmvp969yhdq...-subversion-1.1.3/bin/svn</screen>
every time you want to run Subversion. Of course we could set up the
<envar>PATH</envar> environment variable to include the
<literal>PATH</literal> environment variable to include the
<filename>bin</filename> directory of every package we want to use,
but this is not very convenient since changing <envar>PATH</envar>
but this is not very convenient since changing <literal>PATH</literal>
doesn’t take effect for already existing processes. The solution Nix
uses is to create directory trees of symlinks to
<emphasis>activated</emphasis> packages. These are called
@ -122,10 +122,10 @@ $ nix-env --list-generations</screen></para>
<para>You generally wouldn’t have
<filename>/nix/var/nix/profiles/<replaceable>some-profile</replaceable>/bin</filename>
in your <envar>PATH</envar>. Rather, there is a symlink
in your <literal>PATH</literal>. Rather, there is a symlink
<filename>~/.nix-profile</filename> that points to your current
profile. This means that you should put
<filename>~/.nix-profile/bin</filename> in your <envar>PATH</envar>
<filename>~/.nix-profile/bin</filename> in your <literal>PATH</literal>
(and indeed, that’s what the initialisation script
<filename>/nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh</filename> does). This makes it
easier to switch to a different profile. You can do that using the