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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 |