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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 3b2368b071..99bde4aca3 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5726,11 +5726,13 @@ Consider packages for @var{system}---e.g., @code{x86_64-linux}. Packages and their dependencies form a @dfn{graph}, specifically a directed acyclic graph (DAG). It can quickly become difficult to have a mental model of the package DAG, so the @command{guix graph} command -provides a visual representation of the DAG. @command{guix graph} -emits a DAG representation in the input format of +provides a visual representation of the DAG. By default, +@command{guix graph} emits a DAG representation in the input format of @uref{http://www.graphviz.org/, Graphviz}, so its output can be passed -directly to the @command{dot} command of Graphviz. The general -syntax is: +directly to the @command{dot} command of Graphviz. It can also emit an +HTML page with embedded JavaScript code to display a ``chord diagram'' +in a Web browser, using the @uref{https://d3js.org/, d3.js} library. +The general syntax is: @example guix graph @var{options} @var{package}@dots{} @@ -5855,6 +5857,8 @@ Produce a graph using the selected @var{backend}. @item --list-backends List the supported graph backends. +Currently, the available backends are Graphviz and d3.js. + @item --expression=@var{expr} @itemx -e @var{expr} Consider the package @var{expr} evaluates to. |