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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-04-07 22:53:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-04-07 22:53:06 +0200 |
| commit | 60142854af39e03a00bb2ab12f4710ec4311a4b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 2475b76ec09acb1b207d85f0f868f337b6f60229 /doc | |
| parent | 391bdd8f7f6db2873647e566f5a5570b4eb59c62 (diff) | |
doc: Mention the relation between module names and file names.
* doc/guix.texi (Package Modules): Mention the relation between module
names and file names.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 85e8243015..2997978582 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5439,7 +5439,9 @@ facility is implemented in the @code{(gnu packages)} module. @cindex customization, of packages @cindex package module search path Users can store package definitions in modules with different -names---e.g., @code{(my-packages emacs)}. These package definitions +names---e.g., @code{(my-packages emacs)}@footnote{Note that the file +name and module name must match. @xref{Modules and the File System,,, +guile, GNU Guile Reference Manual}, for details.} These package definitions will not be visible by default. Thus, users can invoke commands such as @command{guix package} and @command{guix build} have to be used with the @code{-e} option so that they know where to find the package, or use the |