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Terminology: what exactly is a "listfile"

At various places in the docs, a user-provided CMake source file is called a "listfile". Unfortunately, this term is not introduced in the foundational page manual/cmake-language.7. So what exactly is a listfile:

  • any code in the CMake language?
  • any code file named "CMakeLists.txt"?
  • something in between?
  • different meanings, depending on context?

Or is it an obsolete term that better be replaced? Replaced by what?

Edited by Joachim Wuttke
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