lix/doc/manual/rl-next/nix-profile-names.md

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synopsis: "`nix profile` now allows referring to elements by human-readable name, and no longer accepts indices"
prs: 8678
cls: 978
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[`nix profile`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile.md) now uses names to refer to installed packages when running [`list`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-list.md), [`remove`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-remove.md) or [`upgrade`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-upgrade.md) as opposed to indices. Indices have been removed.
nix3-profile: allow using human-readable names to select packages These names are parsed from the URL provided for that package Based off of commit 257b768436a0e8ab7887f9b790c5b92a7fe51ef5 Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8678 Co-authored-by: Felix Uhl <felix.uhl@outlook.com> Change-Id: I76d5f9cfb11d3d2915b3dd1db21d7bb49e91f4fb 2024-05-02 00:51:16 +00:00			`---`
nix3-profile: remove indices Based off of commit 3187bc9ac3dd193b9329ef68c73ac3cca794ed78 Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9656 Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> Change-Id: I8ac4a33314cd1cf9de95404c20f58e883460acc7 2024-05-02 01:12:04 +00:00			synopsis: "`nix profile` now allows referring to elements by human-readable name, and no longer accepts indices"
nix3-profile: allow using human-readable names to select packages These names are parsed from the URL provided for that package Based off of commit 257b768436a0e8ab7887f9b790c5b92a7fe51ef5 Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/8678 Co-authored-by: Felix Uhl <felix.uhl@outlook.com> Change-Id: I76d5f9cfb11d3d2915b3dd1db21d7bb49e91f4fb 2024-05-02 00:51:16 +00:00			`prs: 8678`
			`cls: 978`
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nix3-profile: remove indices Based off of commit 3187bc9ac3dd193b9329ef68c73ac3cca794ed78 Upstream-PR: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9656 Co-authored-by: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com> Change-Id: I8ac4a33314cd1cf9de95404c20f58e883460acc7 2024-05-02 01:12:04 +00:00			[`nix profile`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile.md) now uses names to refer to installed packages when running [`list`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-list.md), [`remove`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-remove.md) or [`upgrade`](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-profile-upgrade.md) as opposed to indices. Indices have been removed.