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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-05-24 21:37:13 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-05-24 23:05:31 +0200
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size: Accept several arguments.
* guix/scripts/size.scm (display-profile): Display WHOLE at then end. (guix-size): Accept several FILES. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix size): Add example with several items.
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@@ -5058,6 +5058,24 @@ reports information based on the available substitutes
(@pxref{Substitutes}). This makes it possible it to profile disk usage of
store items that are not even on disk, only available remotely.
+You can also specify several package names:
+
+@example
+$ guix size coreutils grep sed bash
+store item total self
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-coreutils-8.24 77.8 13.8 13.4%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-grep-2.22 73.1 0.8 0.8%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-bash-4.3.42 72.3 4.7 4.6%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-readline-6.3 67.6 1.2 1.2%
+@dots{}
+total: 102.3 MiB
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+In this example we see that the combination of the four packages takes
+102.3@tie{}MiB in total, which is much less than the sum of each closure
+since they have a lot of dependencies in common.
+
The available options are:
@table @option