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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 58bcfbdbb5..2fe7ad3a2a 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -11417,36 +11417,6 @@ and outputs a package expression: guix import json hello.json @end example -@item nix -Import metadata from a local copy of the source of the -@uref{https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/, Nixpkgs distribution}@footnote{This -relies on the @command{nix-instantiate} command of -@uref{https://nixos.org/nix/, Nix}.}. Package definitions in Nixpkgs are -typically written in a mixture of Nix-language and Bash code. This -command only imports the high-level package structure that is written in -the Nix language. It normally includes all the basic fields of a -package definition. - -When importing a GNU package, the synopsis and descriptions are replaced -by their canonical upstream variant. - -Usually, you will first need to do: - -@example -export NIX_REMOTE=daemon -@end example - -@noindent -so that @command{nix-instantiate} does not try to open the Nix database. - -As an example, the command below imports the package definition of -LibreOffice (more precisely, it imports the definition of the package -bound to the @code{libreoffice} top-level attribute): - -@example -guix import nix ~/path/to/nixpkgs libreoffice -@end example - @item hackage @cindex hackage Import metadata from the Haskell community's central package archive |