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doc: hosts-service-type: Improve documentation. 

* doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Improve hosts-service-type documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Bruno Victal 2023-02-21 21:37:09 +00:00 committed by Ludovic Courtès
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@ -18022,7 +18022,7 @@ package or any valid argument to @command{setfont}, as in this example:
@defvar hosts-service-type
Type of the service that populates the entries for (@file{/etc/hosts}).
This service type can be extended by passing it a list of
This service type can be @emph{extended} by passing it a list of
@code{host} records.
@c TRANSLATORS: The domain names below SHOULD NOT be translated.
@ -18047,10 +18047,11 @@ By default @file{/etc/host} comes with the following entries:
For most setups this is what you want though if you find yourself in
the situation where you want to change the default entries, you can
do so in @code{operating-system}.@pxref{operating-system Reference,@code{essential-services}}
do so in @code{operating-system} via @code{modify-services}
(@pxref{Service Reference,@code{modify-services}}).
The following example shows how one would unset @var{host-name}
from being an alias of @code{localhost}.
The following example shows how to unset @var{host-name} from being an
alias of @code{localhost}.
@lisp
(operating-system
;; @dots{}
@ -18085,9 +18086,9 @@ Procedure for creating @code{host} records.
@end defun
@quotation Note
The @code{host} data type constructor is @code{%host} though it is
tiresome to create multiple records with it so in practice the procedure
@code{host} (which wraps around @code{%host}) is used instead.
The constructor for the @code{host} record-type is @code{%host} though
the procedure @code{host} results in more concise definitions when there are
multiple @code{host} records.
@end quotation
@end defvar