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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index fa8d3ab49e..ae2f786111 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2464,6 +2464,11 @@ processes. When a package or derivation is unquoted inside a gexp, the result is as if its output file name had been introduced. +Actually this mechanism is not limited to package and derivation +objects; @dfn{compilers} able to ``lower'' other high-level objects to +derivations can be defined, such that these objects can also be inserted +into gexps. + @item Gexps carry information about the packages or derivations they refer to, and these dependencies are automatically added as inputs to the build |