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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/packages.rst b/docs/users_guide/packages.rst index 837a444a74..ff6953ac8c 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/packages.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/packages.rst @@ -536,6 +536,10 @@ or ``ghci`` that are local to a shell session or to some file system location. They are intended to be managed by build/package tools, to enable ``ghc`` and ``ghci`` to automatically use an environment created by the tool. +In the case of ``ghci``, the environment file will be read once, during +initialisation. If the file changes then you have to restart GHCi to reflect +the updated file. + The file contains package IDs and optionally package databases, one directive per line: |