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authorLaura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com>2018-11-07 14:51:21 -0300
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-11-08 10:24:36 +0100
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doc: Add index entries.
* doc/guix.texi: Added various cindex tags to assist readers. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Mike Gerwitz@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Pierre-Antoine Rouby@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Gábor Boskovits@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Florian Pelz@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura Lazzati@*
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
+@cindex 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
+@cindex 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
+@cindex directories related to foreign distro
+
When installed on a running GNU/Linux system---thereafter called a
@dfn{foreign distro}---GNU@tie{}Guix 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
+@cindex 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