Merge pull request #2388 from grahamc/graham/document-multi-user

Document multi-user installation, and add release notes about it not being the default on 2.1

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.1.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.1.xml
index 9a5f37f6625d..3cace13f10f0 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.1.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.1.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,29 @@ new features:</para>
     <varname>nix-support/propagated-user-env-packages</varname>.</para>
   </listitem>
 
+  <listitem>
+    <para>The Nix installer will no longer default to the Multi-User
+    installation for macOS. You can still <link
+    linkend="sect-multi-user-installation">instruct the installer to
+    run in multi-user mode</link>.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
+    <para>The Nix installer now supports performing a Multi-User
+    installation for Linux computers which are running systemd. You
+    can <link
+    linkend="sect-multi-user-installation">select a Multi-User installation</link> by passing the
+    <option>--daemon</option> flag to the installer: <command>sh &lt;(curl
+    https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon</command>.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>The multi-user installer cannot handle systems with SELinux.
+    If your system has SELinux enabled, you can <link
+    linkend="sect-single-user-installation">force the installer to run
+    in single-user mode</link>.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>
 
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