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authorHerman Rimm <herman@rimm.ee>2024-09-27 20:39:19 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2024-10-14 14:08:43 +0200
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services: configuration: Document multiple configurations per field.
* gnu/services/configuration.scm (generate-documentation): Filter for all configurations associated with each field-name. * doc/guix.texi (Complex Configurations): Describe use case for multiple field-names. Change-Id: I6d1e7b8858231aa05fda884b31a9bd0a48f07293 Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -44702,7 +44702,9 @@ available for the configuration record.
@var{sub-documentation} is a @code{(@var{field-name}
@var{configuration-name})} tuple. @var{field-name} is the name of the
field which takes another configuration record as its value, and
-@var{configuration-name} is the name of that configuration record.
+@var{configuration-name} is the name of that configuration record. The
+same value may be used for multiple @var{field-name}s, in case a field
+accepts different types of configurations.
@var{sub-documentation} is only needed if there are nested configuration
records. For example, the @code{getmail-configuration} record