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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-06-09 18:51:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-06-09 18:55:48 +0200 |
| commit | 49ad317ae16abd318d4bb02e0e17260235750b6a (patch) | |
| tree | 0e48e7c306a5b3de24eef896878a42b496bb9d02 | |
| parent | f9057dba6aab4712b2c7ba2425c855b9bc4bcabc (diff) | |
doc: Add a few words on the term "derivation".
* doc/guix.texi (Programming Interface): Add a sentence on "derivation".
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 10eb344c71..c1e51eac94 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1305,7 +1305,8 @@ store. To instruct the daemon to perform a build action, users actually provide it with a @dfn{derivation}. A derivation is a low-level representation of the build actions to be taken, and the environment in which they should occur---derivations are to package definitions what -assembly is to C programs. +assembly is to C programs. The term ``derivation'' comes from the fact +that build results @emph{derive} from them. This chapter describes all these APIs in turn, starting from high-level package definitions. |