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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-10-05T16·45+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-10-05T16·46+0200
commit9ffc4f4363d9596e2477645eab94e4140cd47c19 (patch)
treedf0d5952a52d693366ce3ec59c81eea859be784f /doc
parent57db2aa22065ede493fee6a6105f712380ed35ea (diff)
Don't mention Fedora/Debian packages in the installation section
See https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/commit/d4a88df9d6114f609da889db62ef0a3bf6e4ef27
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diff --git a/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml b/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml
index f9ee98c726d2..e9a09cba7030 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation/installing-binary.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ $ chown alice /nix
 
 </para>
 
+<!--
 <para>You can also manually download and install a binary package.
 Binary packages of the latest stable release are available for Fedora,
 Debian, Ubuntu, Mac OS X and various other systems from the <link
@@ -53,12 +54,12 @@ $ dpkg -i nix_1.8-1_amd64.deb</screen>
 
 </para>
 
-<para>For other platforms, including Mac OS X and other Linux
-distributions, you can download a binary tarball that contains Nix and
-all its dependencies.  (This is what the install script at
-<uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> uses.)  You should unpack it
-somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and then run the script
-named <command>install</command> inside the binary tarball:
+<para>You can also download a binary tarball that contains Nix and all
+its dependencies.  (This is what the install script at
+<uri>https://nixos.org/nix/install</uri> does automatically.)  You
+should unpack it somewhere (e.g. in <filename>/tmp</filename>), and
+then run the script named <command>install</command> inside the binary
+tarball:
 
 <screen>
 alice$ cd /tmp
@@ -78,5 +79,14 @@ other auxiliary data, if desired:
 $ rm -rf /nix</screen>
 
 </para>
+-->
+
+<para>You can uninstall Nix simply by running:
+
+<screen>
+$ rm -rf /nix
+</screen>
+
+</para>
 
 </chapter>