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776409c5069de949da328b769132fa009477668c — Pierre Neidhardt 6 years ago e70e097
doc: Add example to calculate the size a system.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking `guix size'): Add guix size example for store item.
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@@ 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