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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2026-03-23 22:32:40 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2026-03-23 22:32:40 +0100
commita4b8984388bcb97a8e7af69c822d1434146f38cb (patch)
treed0960ff6d03e3b2295978aaf8c504b63b86ed377
parent2d7ab35c1416dfafbd1cc961cbde9e7bd3670e7f (diff)
news: Clarify entry about inherited field values.
* etc/news.scm: Tweak wording of inherited field value entry. Reported-by: Herman Rimm <herman@rimm.ee> Change-Id: Ia66ac4a682127a3d10ac7d0396962e2257c5e3ca
-rw-r--r--etc/news.scm4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/news.scm b/etc/news.scm
index de3f24edef6..9e17c4215d3 100644
--- a/etc/news.scm
+++ b/etc/news.scm
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
(entry (commit "a7c8e68dc51144a6d3981b770aca9c4897fc7c0c")
(title
- (en "Records such as packages can refer to inherited values"))
+ (en "Records can refer to inherited values of thunked fields"))
(body
(en "A new feature has been added to records—the facility used when
defining packages, services, operating systems, and many other things—that,
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The same mechanism can be used when changing other input fields or the
@code{arguments} field. It is less verbose but also
@uref{https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50335, more accurate}.
-This change applies to all record types produced by
+This change applies to \"thunked\" fields of all record types produced by
@code{define-record-type*}: @code{package}, @code{origin},
@code{operating-system}, @code{home-environment}, and so on.