lix/doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md
jade 748d8310fa Fix the pages in the manual for Lix
This doesn't comprehensively fix everything outdated in the manual, or
make the manual greatly better, but it does note down where at least
jade noticed it was wrong, and it does fix all the instances of
referencing Nix to conform to the style guide to the best of our
ability.

A lot of things have been commented out for being wrong, and there are
three types of FIXME introduced:

- FIXME(Lix): generically Lix needs to fix it
- FIXME(Qyriad): re lix-project/lix#215
- FIXME(meson): docs got outdated by meson changes and need rewriting

I did fix a bunch of it that I could, but there could certainly be
mistakes and this is definitely just an incremental improvement.

Fixes: lix-project/lix#266
Change-Id: I5993c4603d7f026a887089fce77db08394362135
2024-05-05 16:11:01 -07:00

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`nix profile` now allows referring to elements by human-readable name, and no longer accepts indices 8678
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nix profile now uses names to refer to installed packages when running list, remove or upgrade as opposed to indices. Indices have been removed. Profile element names are generated when a package is installed and remain the same until the package is removed.

Warning: The manifest.nix file used to record the contents of profiles has changed. Lix will automatically upgrade profiles to the new version when you modify the profile. After that, the profile can no longer be used by older versions of Lix.