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commit 2b529a376a7fd839c00fc6b9053df685d4f644d2
Author: Lee <inbox@leefallat.ca>
AuthorDate: Fri Feb 12 16:44:56 2021 -0500

    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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 doc/guix.texi | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 68abb96..d1c6acd 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