4 files changed, 8 insertions, 76 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
index 598b15827883..4c8f3d9d3809 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/conf-file.xml
@@ -406,16 +406,6 @@ flag, e.g. <literal>--option gc-keep-outputs false</literal>.</para>
   </varlistentry>
 
 
-  <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-cache-secret-key-file</literal></term>
-
-    <listitem><para>Path of the file containing the secret key to be
-    used for signing binary caches. This file can be generated using
-    <command>nix-store
-    --generate-binary-cache-key</command>.</para></listitem>
-
-  </varlistentry>
-
-
   <varlistentry><term><literal>binary-caches-parallel-connections</literal></term>
 
     <listitem><para>The maximum number of parallel HTTP connections
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
index d65f4009ee6e..5b7936393951 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common-syn.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 <arg><option>-K</option></arg>
 <arg><option>--fallback</option></arg>
 <arg><option>--readonly-mode</option></arg>
-<arg><option>--log-type</option> <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
 <arg><option>--show-trace</option></arg>
 <arg>
   <option>-I</option>
diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
index c7e8ae1ed05f..bc26a90616e4 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/opt-common.xml
@@ -201,61 +201,6 @@
 </varlistentry>
 
 
-<varlistentry xml:id="opt-log-type"><term><option>--log-type</option>
-<replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
-
-  <listitem>
-
-  <para>This option determines how the output written to standard
-  error is formatted.  Nix’s diagnostic messages are typically
-  <emphasis>nested</emphasis>.  For instance, when tracing Nix
-  expression evaluation (<command>nix-env -vvvvv</command>, messages
-  from subexpressions are nested inside their parent expressions.  Nix
-  builder output is also often nested.  For instance, the Nix Packages
-  generic builder nests the various build tasks (unpack, configure,
-  compile, etc.), and the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv-linux</literal>
-  has been patched to provide nesting for recursive Make
-  invocations.</para>
-
-  <para><replaceable>type</replaceable> can be one of the
-  following:
-
-  <variablelist>
-
-    <varlistentry><term><literal>pretty</literal></term>
-
-      <listitem><para>Pretty-print the output, indicating different
-      nesting levels using spaces.  This is the
-      default.</para></listitem>
-
-    </varlistentry>
-
-    <varlistentry><term><literal>escapes</literal></term>
-
-      <listitem><para>Indicate nesting using escape codes that can be
-      interpreted by the <command>nix-log2xml</command> tool in the
-      Nix source distribution.  The resulting XML file can be fed into
-      the <command>log2html.xsl</command> stylesheet to create an HTML
-      file that can be browsed interactively, using JavaScript to
-      expand and collapse parts of the output.</para></listitem>
-
-    </varlistentry>
-
-    <varlistentry><term><literal>flat</literal></term>
-
-      <listitem><para>Remove all nesting.</para></listitem>
-
-    </varlistentry>
-
-  </variablelist>
-
-  </para>
-
-  </listitem>
-
-</varlistentry>
-
-
 <varlistentry><term><option>--arg</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable> <replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
 
   <listitem><para>This option is accepted by
diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml
index e0dd98b7e67e..bd3901a13351 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/simple-building-testing.xml
@@ -7,15 +7,14 @@
 <title>Building and Testing</title>
 
 <para>You can now try to build Hello.  Of course, you could do
-<literal>nix-env -f pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -i hello</literal>,
-but you may not want to install a possibly broken package just yet.
-The best way to test the package is by using the command <command
-linkend="sec-nix-build">nix-build</command>, which builds a Nix
-expression and creates a symlink named <filename>result</filename> in
-the current directory:
+<literal>nix-env -i hello</literal>, but you may not want to install a
+possibly broken package just yet.  The best way to test the package is by
+using the command <command linkend="sec-nix-build">nix-build</command>,
+which builds a Nix expression and creates a symlink named
+<filename>result</filename> in the current directory:
 
 <screen>
-$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -A hello
+$ nix-build -A hello
 building path `/nix/store/632d2b22514d...-hello-2.1.1'
 hello-2.1.1/
 hello-2.1.1/intl/
@@ -29,8 +28,7 @@ $ ./result/bin/hello
 Hello, world!</screen>
 
 The <link linkend='opt-attr'><option>-A</option></link> option selects
-the <literal>hello</literal> attribute from
-<filename>all-packages.nix</filename>.  This is faster than using the
+the <literal>hello</literal> attribute.  This is faster than using the
 symbolic package name specified by the <literal>name</literal>
 attribute (which also happens to be <literal>hello</literal>) and is
 unambiguous (there can be multiple packages with the symbolic name
@@ -69,7 +67,7 @@ block (or perform other derivations if available) until the build
 finishes:
 
 <screen>
-$ nix-build pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix -A hello
+$ nix-build -A hello
 waiting for lock on `/nix/store/0h5b7hp8d4hqfrw8igvx97x1xawrjnac-hello-2.1.1x'</screen>
 
 So it is always safe to run multiple instances of Nix in parallel