Subject: [bug#60661] [DOCUMENTATION] doc: Example of selecting package output with lisp

From: Karl Hallsby <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:37:55 -0600

* doc/guix.texi (Packages with Multiple Outputs): Give example of how to
select a package's output is a Lisp-y fashion, without using a special
procedure like specification->package.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 293c3016aa..025a73f616 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -4315,6 +4315,23 @@ The command to install its documentation is:
 guix install glib:doc
 @end example
 
+While the colon syntax works for command-line specification of package
+outputs, it will not work when specifying the package by Guix name.
+For example, say you want to add only @code{glib}'s documentation to
+your @code{operating-system}'s globally installed packages
+(@pxref{operating-system Reference}).
+
+@lisp
+(use-modules (gnu packages glib))
+;; glib-with-documentation is the Guile symbol for the glib package
+(operating-system
+ ...
+ (packages
+  (append
+   (list (list glib-with-documentation "doc"))
+         %base-packages)))
+@end lisp
+
 Some packages install programs with different ``dependency footprints''.
 For instance, the WordNet package installs both command-line tools and
 graphical user interfaces (GUIs).  The former depend solely on the C

base-commit: 812ecf7ee673a3d619d1d3664350508c67e9d92c
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2.38.1