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diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml index ff4021a76..5a2866e6b 100644 --- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml +++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-channel.xml @@ -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> |