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fe0915cf24a2bd2edd2b7d38d4ba85998e486f20 — Julien Lepiller 9 years ago 860f73c
doc: Document (list package output) syntax in operanting-system-packages.

* doc/guix.texi (Globally-Visible Packages): Document (PACKAGE OUTPUT) syntax.
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
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@@ 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