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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-05-15 22:26:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-05-16 11:03:23 +0200 |
| commit | 2fd345cdfdd45dd48c9392a26793e442d680968b (patch) | |
| tree | eaba130eb8a485070da114e8dae35b28d9350d55 /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 5f93600fa62d5fa1e47e273ec347ee14e72f7170 (diff) | |
| download | guix-2fd345cdfdd45dd48c9392a26793e442d680968b.tar.gz | |
doc: Improve 'guix size' documentation.
Suggested by Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>. Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/31456>. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix size): Clarify that 'guix size' looks for ungrafted packages. Clarify that it can be passed several package specifications.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index a771ab7ae1..2234d953b5 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -6905,7 +6905,8 @@ single output for a package that could easily be split (@pxref{Packages with Multiple Outputs}). Such are the typical issues that @command{guix size} can highlight. -The command can be passed a package specification such as @code{gcc@@4.8} +The command can be passed one or more package specifications +such as @code{gcc@@4.8} or @code{guile:debug}, or a file name in the store. Consider this example: @@ -6941,13 +6942,16 @@ In this example, we see that the closure of Coreutils weighs in at large fraction of the closure is not a problem @i{per se} because it is always available on the system anyway.) -When the package passed to @command{guix size} is available in the -store, @command{guix size} queries the daemon to determine its +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 +@code{guix build @var{package} --no-grafts}. @xref{Security Updates}, +for information on grafts.}, @command{guix size} queries the daemon to determine its dependencies, and measures its size in the store, similar to @command{du -ms --apparent-size} (@pxref{du invocation,,, coreutils, GNU Coreutils}). -When the given package is @emph{not} in the store, @command{guix size} +When the given packages are @emph{not} in the store, @command{guix size} 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. |