01/02: doc: Mention the 'NIX_REMOTE' variable for 'guix import nix'.

[Ludovic Courtès]

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commit 961d0d2d2237baca7bd2099aebee279765bbd257
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Nov 23 23:20:41 2015 +0100

    doc: Mention the 'NIX_REMOTE' variable for 'guix import nix'.
    
    Suggested by rgrau on #guix.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Document 'NIX_REMOTE'.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 03363c1..a56bda9 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -4156,6 +4156,15 @@ package definition.
 When importing a GNU package, the synopsis and descriptions are replaced
 by their canonical upstream variant.
 
+Usually, you will first need to do:
+
address@hidden
+export NIX_REMOTE=daemon
address@hidden example
+
address@hidden
+so that @command{nix-instantiate} does not try to open the Nix database.
+
 As an example, the command below imports the package definition of
 LibreOffice (more precisely, it imports the definition of the package
 bound to the @code{libreoffice} top-level attribute):