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@@ -31,12 +31,11 @@
<refsection><title>Description</title>
-<para>A Nix channel is a mechanism that allows you to automatically stay
-up-to-date with a set of pre-built Nix expressions. A Nix channel is
-just a URL that points to a place containing both a set of Nix
-expressions and a pointer to a binary cache. <phrase
-condition="manual">See also <xref linkend="sec-channels"
-/>.</phrase></para>
+<para>A Nix channel is a mechanism that allows you to automatically
+stay up-to-date with a set of pre-built Nix expressions. A Nix
+channel is just a URL that points to a place containing a set of Nix
+expressions. <phrase condition="manual">See also <xref
+linkend="sec-channels" />.</phrase></para>
<para>This command has the following operations:
@@ -172,18 +171,6 @@ following files:</para>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term><filename>binary-cache-url</filename></term>
-
- <listitem><para>A file containing the URL to a binary cache (such
- as <uri>https://cache.nixos.org</uri>). Nix will automatically
- check this cache for pre-built binaries, if the user has
- sufficient rights to add binary caches. For instance, in a
- multi-user Nix setup, the binary caches provided by the channels
- of the root user are used automatically, but caches corresponding
- to the channels of non-root users are ignored.</para></listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
</variablelist>
</refsection>