From 614b9795247bb244f2bf30be55055c2b4dbd0f9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Neidhardt Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 15:40:41 +0200 Subject: doc: Add example to calculate the size a system. * 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 -- cgit v1.2.3