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| author | Lee <inbox@leefallat.ca> | 2021-02-12 16:44:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> | 2021-02-15 12:06:13 +0100 |
| commit | 2b529a376a7fd839c00fc6b9053df685d4f644d2 (patch) | |
| tree | ae56281c3cab052474ebe1bced3ff9ba1796d058 /doc | |
| parent | adae5d75b6029b5d034030cff24e1ba4d8b3144a (diff) | |
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doc: Explain how to exit and clean up a Guix environment.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix environment): Explain how to exit and clean up
a Guix environment.
The current documentation doesn't explain how to exit an environment or how to
remove the packages after exiting.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 68abb968b0..d1c6acddcf 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5558,6 +5558,12 @@ they should be defined in @file{.bash_profile}, which is sourced only by log-in shells. @xref{Bash Startup Files,,, bash, The GNU Bash Reference Manual}, for details on Bash start-up files.}. +Exiting from a Guix environment is the same as exiting from the shell, +and will place the user back in the old environment before @command{guix +environment} was invoked. The next garbage collection (@pxref{Invoking +guix gc}) will clean up packages that were installed from within the +environment and are no longer used outside of it. + @vindex GUIX_ENVIRONMENT @command{guix environment} defines the @env{GUIX_ENVIRONMENT} variable in the shell it spawns; its value is the file name of the |