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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-03-29 21:44:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-03-29 21:44:31 +0100 |
| commit | 4928e50033615e1d130dd84f131eff4cbc702ccf (patch) | |
| tree | 320ff9bae85de20b0293119653b07b1197eaaa82 /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 14a3a67364f46b24d7e39d64ac92879c3eb7f8eb (diff) | |
| parent | 3f5a932eeaa8111b841de64b742b1cc408f2419a (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
Conflicts:
Makefile.am
gnu/packages/base.scm
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index a07c277e70..1be172c3f6 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -514,6 +514,12 @@ Thus, when installing MPC, the MPFR and GMP libraries also get installed in the profile; removing MPC also removes MPFR and GMP---unless they had also been explicitly installed independently. +@c XXX: keep me up-to-date +Besides, when installing a GNU package, the tool reports the +availability of a newer upstream version. In the future, it may provide +the option of installing directly from the upstream version, even if +that version is not yet in the distribution. + @item --install-from-expression=@var{exp} @itemx -e @var{exp} Install the package @var{exp} evaluates to. |