guix-package: Create ~/.guix-profile when it doesn't exist.

* guix-package.in (guix-package): Create the %USER-ENVIRONMENT-DIRECTORY
  symlink if it doesn't exist yet.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix-package): Document it.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index dc3473405e..1784642c7b 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -428,6 +428,12 @@ the transaction.  Upon completion, a new profile is created, but
 previous generations of the profile remain available, should the user
 want to roll back.
 
+For each user, a symlink to the user's default profile is automatically
+created in @file{$HOME/.guix-profile}.  This symlink always point to the
+current generation of the user's default profile.  Thus, users can add
+@file{$HOME/.guix-profile/bin} to their @code{PATH} environment
+variable, and so on.
+
 @table @code
 
 @item --install=@var{package}