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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index dbe281ead7..cb09978fab 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -38848,7 +38848,38 @@ environment. Note that not every home service that exists is supported $ guix home import ~/guix-config guix home: '/home/alice/guix-config' populated with all the Home configuration files @end example +@end table + +And there's more! @command{guix home} also provides the following +sub-commands to visualize how the services of your home environment +relate to one another: + +@table @code +@cindex service extension graph, of a home environment +@item extension-graph +Emit to standard output the @dfn{service extension graph} of the home +environment defined in @var{file} (@pxref{Service Composition}, for more +information on service extensions). By default the output is in +Dot/Graphviz format, but you can choose a different format with +@option{--graph-backend}, as with @command{guix graph} (@pxref{Invoking +guix graph, @option{--backend}}): + +The command: + +@example +guix home extension-graph @var{file} | xdot - +@end example + +shows the extension relations among services. +@cindex Shepherd dependency graph, for a home environment +@item shepherd-graph +Emit to standard output the @dfn{dependency graph} of shepherd services +of the home environment defined in @var{file}. @xref{Shepherd +Services}, for more information and for an example graph. + +Again, the default output format is Dot/Graphviz, but you can pass +@option{--graph-backend} to select a different one. @end table @var{options} can contain any of the common build options (@pxref{Common |