From e9dffec1265233c3b37ef61538b51f121a420ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:42:04 +0200
Subject: doc: Update 'skeletons' field documentation.
* doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Update documentation of
'skeletons' as a followup to e79467f63a06811ba5dd8c8b0cc79553c5dd4e3a.
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doc/guix.texi | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
(limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 8088167818..34683d2555 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -6426,15 +6426,17 @@ For example, @code{'("/dev/sda3")}.
List of user accounts and groups. @xref{User Accounts}.
@item @code{skeletons} (default: @code{(default-skeletons)})
-A monadic list of pairs of target file name and files. These are the
-files that will be used as skeletons as new accounts are created.
+A list target file name/file-like object tuples (@pxref{G-Expressions,
+file-like objects}). These are the skeleton files that will be added to
+the home directory of newly-created user accounts.
For instance, a valid value may look like this:
@example
-(mlet %store-monad ((bashrc (text-file "bashrc" "\
- export PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin")))
- (return `((".bashrc" ,bashrc))))
+`((".bashrc" ,(plain-file "bashrc" "echo Hello\n"))
+ (".guile" ,(plain-file "guile"
+ "(use-modules (ice-9 readline))
+ (activate-readline)")))
@end example
@item @code{issue} (default: @var{%default-issue})
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