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43d8f4904c8dbd4d28017ce63b929ebb27a897d6 — Ludovic Courtès 13 years ago 37a5340
doc: Add note on installing Guix from Guix.

* README (Installing Guix from Guix): New section.
  Suggested by Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>.
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above packages is being used.

* Installing Guix from Guix

You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix.
To do so:

  - install the dependencies (see 'Requirements' above) using Guix
  - re-run the configure script passing it the option
    `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/'
  - run "make" and "make install"

* How It Works

Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/.  A derivation is