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02/04: doc: Mention the d3.js backend of 'guix graph'.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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02/04: doc: Mention the d3.js backend of 'guix graph'. |
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Sun, 18 Dec 2016 17:43:29 +0000 (UTC) |
rekado pushed a commit to branch version-0.12.0
in repository guix.
commit 5508dade051ddcc5c54df13bbde190cd590ef9dd
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date: Sun Dec 18 17:11:13 2016 +0100
doc: Mention the d3.js backend of 'guix graph'.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix graph): Mention the d3.js backend.
---
doc/guix.texi | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 3b2368b..99bde4a 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,
address@hidden 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} @address@hidden
@@ -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 address@hidden
@itemx -e @var{expr}
Consider the package @var{expr} evaluates to.