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Its purpose is similar to the description > field in a record. Since channel descriptions would be maintained by the user and neither Guix' nor the channel's authors, I think it's safe to say that this description field would in effect be nothing more but a comment.=20 Paired with the fact that introducing it would break ABI, I'm not too sure whether this is a good idea. Cheers