GUIX(1)

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🌸 GUIX(1) 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the guix manual page — specifically the guix graph one — living its best life in the User Commands section of the manual, and this particular copies is for GNU Guix 1.5.0rc1.47-fc2f5a. Yes that's a version string, no I will not be pronouncing it. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

guix — literally the manual page for guix graph (GNU Guix) 1.5.0rc1.47-fc2f5a. That's it, that's the whole name section, she's short and iconic. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

guix graph PACKAGE...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Emit a representation of the dependency graph of PACKAGE... 🦋

Like, it takes your packages and draws you the whole web of who-depends-on-who. It's giving family tree but for your software. Obsessed.

  • -b, --backend=TYPE — produce a graph with the given backend TYPE 💖
  • --list-backends — list all the available graph backends, so you can pick your fave
  • -t, --type=TYPE — represent the nodes of the graph as the given TYPE
  • --list-types — list all the available graph types (go check these out, no cap)
  • -M, --max-depth=DEPTH — limit the graph to only the nodes within distance DEPTH, so it doesn't get out of hand 😭
  • --path — display the shortest path between the given nodes. iykyk, it's the glow-up route 💫
  • -e, --expression=EXPR — consider the package that EXPR evaluates to's basically, you can hand it an expression instead of a package name
  • -L, --load-path=DIR — prepend DIR to the package module search path 🌸
  • --help-transform — list out the package transformation options that aren't shown here (they're hidden, mysterious, main character energy 👑)
  • -h, --help — display this help and exit. bye bestie 👋
  • -V, --version — display version information and exit
  • --list-systems — list all the available systems
  • -s, --system=SYSTEM — attempt to build for SYSTEM — e.g. "i686-linux" 🔥

✨ REPORTING BUGS ✨

Found a bug? First of all, rude (jk, it happens). Report it, queen:

Copyright © 2025 the Guix authors License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 🫶 (like please read that part, it's important)

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

The full documentation for guix is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and guix programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info guix

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, it's a whole vibe 📚✨

and that's the tea 🍓 — this page is brought to you by GNU, dated January 2026, officially filed under GUIX(1). mwah 💋

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