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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 88128a4b3a..f7e2204b53 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Oleg Pykhalov@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Mike Gerwitz@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Pierre-Antoine Rouby@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019 Gábor Boskovits@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019 Florian Pelz@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2018, 2019, 2020 Florian Pelz@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura Lazzati@* Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Alex Vong@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Josh Holland@* @@ -6370,21 +6370,22 @@ this area (@pxref{Invoking guix lint}). @anchor{package-propagated-inputs} Lastly, @code{propagated-inputs} is similar to @code{inputs}, but the -specified packages will be automatically installed alongside the package +specified packages will be automatically installed to profiles +(@pxref{Features, the role of profiles in Guix}) alongside the package they belong to (@pxref{package-cmd-propagated-inputs, @command{guix package}}, for information on how @command{guix package} deals with propagated inputs). -For example this is necessary when a C/C++ library needs headers of -another library to compile, or when a pkg-config file refers to another -one @i{via} its @code{Requires} field. +For example this is necessary when packaging a C/C++ library that needs +headers of another library to compile, or when a pkg-config file refers +to another one @i{via} its @code{Requires} field. Another example where @code{propagated-inputs} is useful is for languages that lack a facility to record the run-time search path akin to the @code{RUNPATH} of ELF files; this includes Guile, Python, Perl, and -more. To ensure that libraries written in those languages can find -library code they depend on at run time, run-time dependencies must be -listed in @code{propagated-inputs} rather than @code{inputs}. +more. When packaging libraries written in those languages, ensure they +can find library code they depend on at run time by listing run-time +dependencies in @code{propagated-inputs} rather than @code{inputs}. @item @code{outputs} (default: @code{'("out")}) The list of output names of the package. @xref{Packages with Multiple |