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[bug#41539] [PATCH 2/2] doc: Add example to calculate the size a system.
From: |
Pierre Neidhardt |
Subject: |
[bug#41539] [PATCH 2/2] doc: Add example to calculate the size a system. |
Date: |
Tue, 26 May 2020 15:40:41 +0200 |
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking `guix size'): Add guix size example for store item.
---
doc/guix.texi | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 4dbbf96db9..0c4067b52e 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -10110,6 +10110,13 @@ libraries. (That libc and GCC's libraries represent a
large fraction of
the closure is not a problem @i{per se} because they are always available
on the system anyway.)
+Since the command also accepts store file names, assessing the size of
+a build result is straightforward:
+
+@example
+guix size $(guix system build config.scm)
+@end example
+
When the package(s) passed to @command{guix size} are available in the
store@footnote{More precisely, @command{guix size} looks for the
@emph{ungrafted} variant of the given package(s), as returned by
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