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Ludovic Courtès |
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04/04: doc: Add index entries. |
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Thu, 8 Nov 2018 04:24:56 -0500 (EST) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.
commit 8fa9ace1d6022ff2dca4618d1c7b22dc4be28b86
Author: Laura Lazzati <address@hidden>
Date: Wed Nov 7 14:51:21 2018 -0300
doc: Add index entries.
* doc/guix.texi: Added various cindex tags to assist readers.
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
---
doc/guix.texi | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index d021875..441b65b 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Mike address@hidden
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Pierre-Antoine address@hidden
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Gábor address@hidden
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Florian address@hidden
+Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura address@hidden
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -354,6 +355,7 @@ configuration in a transactional, reproducible, and
stateless fashion
(@pxref{System Configuration}).
@cindex functional package management
address@hidden isolation
Under the hood, Guix implements the @dfn{functional package management}
discipline pioneered by Nix (@pxref{Acknowledgments}).
In Guix, the package build and installation process is seen
@@ -387,6 +389,7 @@ garbage collection of packages (@pxref{Features}).
@chapter Installation
@cindex installing Guix
address@hidden official website
GNU Guix is available for download from its website at
@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/}. This section describes the
software requirements of Guix, as well as how to install it and get
@@ -398,6 +401,8 @@ instead, you want to install the complete GNU operating
system,
@pxref{System Installation}.
@cindex foreign distro
address@hidden directories related to foreign distro
+
When installed on a running GNU/Linux system---thereafter called a
@dfn{foreign address@hidden complements the available tools
without interference. Its data lives exclusively in two directories,
@@ -420,6 +425,7 @@ Once installed, Guix can be updated by running
@command{guix pull}
@section Binary Installation
@cindex installing Guix from binaries
address@hidden installer script
This section describes how to install Guix on an arbitrary system from a
self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and for all its
dependencies. This is often quicker than installing from source, which