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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | guix-package.in | 11 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 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} diff --git a/guix-package.in b/guix-package.in index 286ae8db09..450d09e081 100644 --- a/guix-package.in +++ b/guix-package.in @@ -458,6 +458,13 @@ Install, remove, or upgrade PACKAGES in a single transaction.\n")) (setvbuf (current-error-port) _IOLBF) (let ((opts (parse-options))) + + ;; Create ~/.guix-profile if it doesn't exist yet. + (when (and %user-environment-directory + %current-profile + (not (file-exists? %user-environment-directory))) + (symlink %current-profile %user-environment-directory)) + (with-error-handling (or (process-query opts) (parameterize ((%guile-for-build @@ -466,7 +473,3 @@ Install, remove, or upgrade PACKAGES in a single transaction.\n")) %bootstrap-guile guile-final)))) (process-actions opts)))))) - -;; Local Variables: -;; eval: (put 'guard 'scheme-indent-function 1) -;; End: |