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@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ A property is composed of up to five subroutines, which all have the same
lambda list (take the same arguments). At least one of ``:hostattrs``,
``:apply`` or ``:unapply`` must be present.
+``:desc`` subroutines
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Pure function of the property's arguments which returns a description of
+applying the property, to be used in stdout by deployments to inform the user
+what work is being done.
+
``:preprocess`` subroutines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~