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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index cfa5aac326..847c73ab8c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1483,12 +1483,16 @@ The @var{options} may be zero or more of the following: @item --expression=@var{expr} @itemx -e @var{expr} -Build the package @var{expr} evaluates to. +Build the package or derivation @var{expr} evaluates to. For example, @var{expr} may be @code{(@@ (gnu packages guile) guile-1.8)}, which unambiguously designates this specific variant of version 1.8 of Guile. +Alternately, @var{expr} may refer to a zero-argument monadic procedure +(@pxref{The Store Monad}). The procedure must return a derivation as a +monadic value, which is then passed through @code{run-with-store}. + @item --source @itemx -S Build the packages' source derivations, rather than the packages |