01/01: doc: guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user'.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 4379c35b73e912a42dcea7e89aae1e2edd9708cd
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Jan 4 23:42:51 2015 +0100

    doc: guix-daemon now automatically creates '…/profiles/per-user'.
    
    Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/19315>.
    Reported by rekado <address@hidden>.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Adjust text to new guix-daemon
      behavior introduced in commit 15ddeff.
---
 doc/guix.texi |   17 ++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 0073785..12a1808 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 @include version.texi
 
 @copying
-Copyright @copyright{} 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic address@hidden
+Copyright @copyright{} 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Ludovic address@hidden
 Copyright @copyright{} 2013, 2014 Andreas address@hidden
 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
address@hidden/.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
 @address@hidden/profiles/per-user/@var{user}}, where
 @var{localstatedir} is the value passed to @code{configure} as
address@hidden, 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.
address@hidden, and @var{user} is the user name.  The
address@hidden 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: