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| author | Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> | 2017-05-01 15:44:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> | 2017-05-06 10:02:26 +0200 |
| commit | fe0915cf24a2bd2edd2b7d38d4ba85998e486f20 (patch) | |
| tree | 97e2eaf11ff9c6e2ca49ffb607f03d5c23a3d8c9 /doc | |
| parent | 860f73c699a5a22036b67b63a5a2a3e0901a354f (diff) | |
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doc: Document (list package output) syntax in operanting-system-packages.
* doc/guix.texi (Globally-Visible Packages): Document (PACKAGE OUTPUT) syntax.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 79942d7cd1..4446909ed6 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -7761,7 +7761,19 @@ provides all the tools one would expect for basic user and administrator tasks---including the GNU Core Utilities, the GNU Networking Utilities, the GNU Zile lightweight text editor, @command{find}, @command{grep}, etc. The example above adds tcpdump to those, taken from the @code{(gnu -packages admin)} module (@pxref{Package Modules}). +packages admin)} module (@pxref{Package Modules}). The +@code{(list package output)} syntax can be used to add a specific output +of a package: + +@lisp +(use-modules (gnu packages)) +(use-modules (gnu packages dns)) + +(operating-system + ;; ... + (packages (cons (list bind "utils") + %base-packages))) +@end lisp @findex specification->package Referring to packages by variable name, like @var{tcpdump} above, has |