From 776409c5069de949da328b769132fa009477668c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Neidhardt Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 15:36:58 +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 5b9942d420..ba5729bd41 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -10112,6 +10112,13 @@ 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