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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index fc28a15980..8fe0743ec2 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -14359,6 +14359,39 @@ and generate package expressions for all those packages that are not yet in Guix. @end table +@item npm-binary +@cindex npm +@cindex Node.js +Import metadata from the @uref{https://registry.npmjs.org, npm +Registry}, as in this example: + +@example +guix import npm-binary buffer-crc32 +@end example + +The npm-binary importer also allows you to specify a version string: + +@example +guix import npm-binary buffer-crc32@@1.0.0 +@end example + +@quotation Note +Generated package expressions skip the build step of the +@code{node-build-system}. As such, generated package expressions often +refer to transpiled or generated files, instead of being built from +source. +@end quotation + +Additional options include: + +@table @code +@item --recursive +@itemx -r +Traverse the dependency graph of the given upstream package recursively +and generate package expressions for all those packages that are not yet +in Guix. +@end table + @item opam @cindex OPAM @cindex OCaml |