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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2020-07-23 14:16:46 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2020-07-23 18:27:20 +0200
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@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ strings prefixed to the directory names are cryptographic hashes\[1\] of
*all* inputs involved in building the package — sources, dependencies,
compiler flags, and so on. So if two packages differ in any way, they
end up in different locations in the file system, so they don’t
-interfere with each other. [figure\_title](#fig-user-environments) shows
-a part of a typical Nix store.
+interfere with each other. Here is what a part of a typical Nix store
+looks like:
-![User environments](../figures/user-environments.png)
+![](../figures/user-environments.png)
Of course, you wouldn’t want to type
@@ -30,11 +30,10 @@ package we want to use, but this is not very convenient since changing
Nix uses is to create directory trees of symlinks to *activated*
packages. These are called *user environments* and they are packages
themselves (though automatically generated by `nix-env`), so they too
-reside in the Nix store. For instance, in
-[figure\_title](#fig-user-environments) the user environment
-`/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env` contains a symlink to just
-Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure indicate symlinks). This would be
-what we would obtain if we had done
+reside in the Nix store. For instance, in the figure above, the user
+environment `/nix/store/0c1p5z4kda11...-user-env` contains a symlink to
+just Subversion 1.1.2 (arrows in the figure indicate symlinks). This
+would be what we would obtain if we had done
$ nix-env -i subversion