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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 0a30b52fca..18a1960cf7 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2503,8 +2503,12 @@ The name of the package, as a string. The version of the package, as a string. @item @code{source} -An origin object telling how the source code for the package should be -acquired (@pxref{origin Reference}). +An object telling how the source code for the package should be +acquired. Most of the time, this is an @code{origin} object, which +denotes a file fetched from the Internet (@pxref{origin Reference}). It +can also be any other ``file-like'' object such as a @code{local-file}, +which denotes a file from the local file system (@pxref{G-Expressions, +@code{local-file}}). @item @code{build-system} The build system that should be used to build the package (@pxref{Build |