doc: Document (list package output) syntax in operanting-system-packages.
* doc/guix.texi (Globally-Visible Packages): Document (PACKAGE OUTPUT) syntax.
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		|  | @ -7761,7 +7761,19 @@ provides all the tools one would expect for basic user and administrator | |||
| tasks---including the GNU Core Utilities, the GNU Networking Utilities, | ||||
| the GNU Zile lightweight text editor, @command{find}, @command{grep}, | ||||
| etc.  The example above adds tcpdump to those, taken from the @code{(gnu | ||||
| packages admin)} module (@pxref{Package Modules}). | ||||
| packages admin)} module (@pxref{Package Modules}).  The | ||||
| @code{(list package output)} syntax can be used to add a specific output | ||||
| of a package: | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| @lisp | ||||
| (use-modules (gnu packages)) | ||||
| (use-modules (gnu packages dns)) | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| (operating-system | ||||
|   ;; ... | ||||
|   (packages (cons (list bind "utils") | ||||
|                   %base-packages))) | ||||
| @end lisp | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| @findex specification->package | ||||
| Referring to packages by variable name, like @var{tcpdump} above, has | ||||
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