From 961d0d2d2237baca7bd2099aebee279765bbd257 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 23:20:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention the 'NIX_REMOTE' variable for 'guix import nix'.

Suggested by rgrau on #guix.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Document 'NIX_REMOTE'.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 03363c170c..a56bda9c79 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:
+
+@example
+export NIX_REMOTE=daemon
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+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):