doc: Mention store sharing with Nix; update `package' example.

* doc/guix.texi: Set @documentlanguage.
  (Installation): Add reference to `INSTALL' and `README'.
  (Requirements): Mention store sharing with Nix.
  (Defining Packages): Update example to include `use-modules' clauses
  and to use (guix licenses).
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Ludovic Courtès 2013-01-11 16:16:36 +01:00
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@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
@c %**start of header
@setfilename guix.info
@documentencoding UTF-8
@documentlanguage en
@settitle GNU Guix Reference Manual
@c %**end of header
@ -138,6 +139,10 @@ The remainder of this manual describes them.
This section describes the software requirements of Guix, as well as how
to install it and get ready to use it.
The build procedure for Guix is the same as for other GNU software, and
are not covered here. Please see the files @file{README} and
@file{INSTALL} in the Guix source tree for additional details.
@menu
* Requirements:: Software needed to build and run Guix.
* Setting Up the Daemon:: Preparing the build daemon's environment.
@ -167,6 +172,16 @@ When a working installation of the Nix package manager is available, you
can instead configure Guix with @code{--disable-daemon}. In that case,
@url{http://nixos.org/nix/, Nix} replaces the three dependencies above.
Guix is compatible with Nix, so it is possible to share the same store
between both. To do so, you must pass @command{configure} not only the
same @code{--with-store-dir} value, but also the same
@code{--localstatedir} value (the latter is essential because it
specifies where the database that store meta-data about the store is
located, among other things.) The default values are
@code{--with-store-dir=/nix/store} and @code{--localstatedir=/nix/var}.
Note that @code{--disable-daemon} is orthogonal and is not required if
your goal is to share the same store as Nix.
@node Setting Up the Daemon
@section Setting Up the Daemon
@ -595,6 +610,11 @@ example, the package definition, or @dfn{recipe}, for the GNU Hello
package looks like this:
@example
(use-modules (guix packages)
(guix download)
(guix build-system gnu)
(guix licenses))
(define hello
(package
(name "hello")
@ -610,7 +630,7 @@ package looks like this:
(synopsis "GNU Hello")
(description "Yeah...")
(home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/")
(license "GPLv3+")))
(license gpl3+)))
@end example
@noindent