doc: Remove redundant listing of services.

* doc/guix.texi (Defining Services): Remove listing of service
  procedures; add xref to "Services".
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@ -3632,20 +3632,8 @@ The @code{(gnu services @dots{})} modules define several procedures that allow
users to declare the operating system's services (@pxref{Using the
Configuration System}). These procedures are @emph{monadic
procedures}---i.e., procedures that return a monadic value in the store
monad (@pxref{The Store Monad}). Examples of such procedures include:
@table @code
@item mingetty-service
return the definition of a service that runs @command{mingetty} to
offer a login service on the given console tty;
@item nscd-service
return a definition for libc's name service cache daemon (nscd);
@item guix-service
return a definition for a service that runs @command{guix-daemon}
(@pxref{Invoking guix-daemon}).
@end table
monad (@pxref{The Store Monad}). For examples of such procedures,
@xref{Services}.
@cindex service definition
The monadic value returned by those procedures is a @dfn{service