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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-07-14 16:34:24 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-07-14 16:34:24 +0200
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doc: Remove redundant listing of services.
* doc/guix.texi (Defining Services): Remove listing of service procedures; add xref to "Services".
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
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--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -3632,20 +3632,8 @@ The @code{(gnu services @dots{})} modules define several procedures that allow
users to declare the operating system's services (@pxref{Using the
Configuration System}). These procedures are @emph{monadic
procedures}---i.e., procedures that return a monadic value in the store
-monad (@pxref{The Store Monad}). Examples of such procedures include:
-
-@table @code
-@item mingetty-service
-return the definition of a service that runs @command{mingetty} to
-offer a login service on the given console tty;
-
-@item nscd-service
-return a definition for libc's name service cache daemon (nscd);
-
-@item guix-service
-return a definition for a service that runs @command{guix-daemon}
-(@pxref{Invoking guix-daemon}).
-@end table
+monad (@pxref{The Store Monad}). For examples of such procedures,
+@xref{Services}.
@cindex service definition
The monadic value returned by those procedures is a @dfn{service