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authorJoseph Lucas <lucas.jojo@gmail.com>2019-09-23T13·18+0000
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2019-10-09T14·24+0200
commit4d83eb620625d7079e0bee3c9c89ec0654800593 (patch)
tree0b4c5ae19669d902b33ab93516fcf94f5b541186 /doc/manual
parent3919093e9ade4d3046347a37dbdbc72d22f4f214 (diff)
Update garbage-collection.xml readability
1. remove a typo space
2. Simplify negative style by using affirmative style

(cherry picked from commit 10bfc5c0d09d5508e3dab4c32f3368caeb5f7f56)
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diff --git a/doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml b/doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml
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--- a/doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml
@@ -52,12 +52,13 @@ garbage collector as follows:
 <screen>
 $ nix-store --gc</screen>
 
-The behaviour of the gargage collector is affected by the <literal>keep-
-derivations</literal> (default: true) and <literal>keep-outputs</literal>
+The behaviour of the gargage collector is affected by the 
+<literal>keep-derivations</literal> (default: true) and <literal>keep-outputs</literal>
 (default: false) options in the Nix configuration file. The defaults will ensure
-that all derivations that are not build-time dependencies of garbage collector roots
-will be collected but that all output paths that are not runtime dependencies
-will be collected. (This is usually what you want, but while you are developing
+that all derivations that are build-time dependencies of garbage collector roots
+will be kept and that all output paths that are runtime dependencies
+will be kept as well. All other derivations or paths will be collected. 
+(This is usually what you want, but while you are developing
 it may make sense to keep outputs to ensure that rebuild times are quick.)
 
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