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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index c75ca0c2c8..f6357bdaec 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1519,6 +1519,13 @@ Build systems are @code{<build-system>} objects. The interface to create and manipulate them is provided by the @code{(guix build-system)} module, and actual build systems are exported by specific modules. +Under the hood, build systems first compile package objects to +@dfn{bags}. A @dfn{bag} is like a package, but with less +ornamentation---in other words, a bag is a lower-level representation of +a package, which includes all the inputs of that package, including some +that were implicitly added by the build system. This intermediate +representation is then compiled to a derivation (@pxref{Derivations}). + Build systems accept an optional list of @dfn{arguments}. In package definitions, these are passed @i{via} the @code{arguments} field (@pxref{Defining Packages}). They are typically keyword arguments |