~ruther/guix-local

246a8106ffcc2d8d4b66355219f9dced2137544f — Ludovic Courtès 11 years ago 3942305e
doc: Remove redundant listing of services.

* doc/guix.texi (Defining Services): Remove listing of service
  procedures; add xref to "Services".
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
M doc/guix.texi => doc/guix.texi +2 -14
@@ 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