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| author | Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | 2020-06-30 20:55:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | 2020-06-30 21:19:13 +0200 |
| commit | 4a986753813019d3fb770afd038f4d294dad5f23 (patch) | |
| tree | cdd205c147e3b18baec807ef18cdc5d0438299c8 /gnu/packages/admin.scm | |
| parent | a21d6b63510cc87770f285bd97355ae7fdcd6ed6 (diff) | |
gnu: hosts: Clarify this script only works on a foreign distro.
* gnu/packages/admin.scm (hosts)[synopsis, description]: Clarify that this
script works only on a foreign distro.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/admin.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/admin.scm | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/admin.scm b/gnu/packages/admin.scm index 865807a3f2..acae652bb7 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/admin.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/admin.scm @@ -3979,8 +3979,10 @@ text table representation to stdout.") (install-file "README.md" doc)) #t))) (home-page "https://github.com/xwmx/hosts/") - (synopsis "Bash script for editing @file{/etc/hosts} file") + (synopsis "Script for editing a foreign distro's @file{/etc/hosts} file") (description "Hosts is a command line program for managing -@file{/etc/hosts} entries. @command{hosts} works with existing hosts files -and entries, providing commands to add, remove, comment, and search.") +@file{/etc/hosts} entries. On Guix System, @file{/etc/hosts} is managed from +the system configuration; hosts only works when using the Guix package manager +on a foreign distro. @command{hosts} works with existing hosts files and +entries, providing commands to add, remove, comment, and search.") (license license:expat))) |