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</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>VARIANT=</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ A string identifying a specific variant or edition of the
+ operating system suitable for presentation to the user. This
+ field may be used to inform the user that the configuration of
+ this system is subject to a specific divergent set of rules or
+ default configuration settings. This field is optional and may
+ not be implemented on all systems.
+ Examples:
+ <literal>VARIANT="Server Edition"</literal>,
+ <literal>VARIANT="Smart Refrigerator Edition"</literal>
+ Note: this field is for display purposes only. The
+ <varname>VARIANT_ID</varname> field should be used for making
+ programmatic decisions.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>VARIANT_ID=</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>
+ A lower-case string (no spaces or other characters outside of
+ 0-9, a-z, ".", "_" and "-"), identifying a specific variant or
+ edition of the operating system. This may be interpreted by
+ other packages in order to determine a divergent default
+ configuration. This field is optional and may not be
+ implemented on all systems.
+ Examples:
+ <literal>VARIANT_ID=server</literal>,
+ <literal>VARIANT_ID=embedded</literal>
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
<para>If you are reading this file from C code or a shell script