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[bug#41539,2/2] doc: Add example to calculate the size a system.

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State Accepted
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Series [bug#41539,1/2] size: Document that positional arguments can be store items. | expand

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Pierre Neidhardt May 26, 2020, 1:40 p.m. UTC 
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking `guix size'): Add guix size example for store item.
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 doc/guix.texi | 7 +++++++
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 4dbbf96db9..0c4067b52e 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -10110,6 +10110,13 @@  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