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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-09-13 16:01:36 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-09-16 17:47:46 +0200
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services: Add a description and location for each service type.
* gnu/services.scm (<service-type>)[description, location]: New field.
* doc/guix.texi (Service Types and Services): Document 'description'.
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@@ -18020,6 +18020,10 @@ Udev extensions are composed into a list of rules, but the udev service
 value is itself a @code{<udev-configuration>} record.  So here, we
 extend that record by appending the list of rules it contains to the
 list of contributed rules.
+
+@item description
+This is a string giving an overview of the service type.  The string can
+contain Texinfo markup (@pxref{Overview,,, texinfo, GNU Texinfo}).
 @end table
 
 There can be only one instance of an extensible service type such as