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Confusing manual entry for gexp->file

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: 34574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34574: Confusing manual entry for gexp->file
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 17:21:20 +0100

Hello,

The Guix manual contains the following description of gexp->file:

 -- Monadic Procedure: gexp->file NAME EXP [#:set-load-path? #t]
          [#:module-path %load-path]  [#:splice? #f]  [#:guile
     (default-guile)] Return a derivation that builds a file NAME
     containing EXP. When SPLICE? is true, EXP is considered to be a
     list of expressions that will be spliced in the resulting file.

     When SET-LOAD-PATH? is true, emit code in the resulting file to set
     ‘%load-path’ and ‘%load-compiled-path’ to honor EXP’s imported
     modules. Look up EXP’s modules in MODULE-PATH.

     The resulting file holds references to all the dependencies of EXP
     or a subset thereof.

I do not understand this last sentence.  How can it be a subset?  A
subset of what?  Can this be explained more clearly or removed?

Regards,
Florian
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