Re: Finding the store path of a package

[Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou <nchatz314@gmail.com>]

>Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Yes.  In the presence of grafts, run “guix build PKG”.  That always
>> gives you the store file name of PKG, 100% reliable!
>At the cost of a few hours of CPU time, in the worst case.
>> I regularly do things like:
>>
>>   ls $(guix build PKG)/bin
>>   find $(guix build PKG) -name …
>What I am looking for is the equivalent of
>   ls $(guix build PKG)
>that fails in whatever way for packages that are not in the store, but
>guarantees (1) not adding anything to the store and (2) response times
>short enough for interactive user interfaces.

You can also try guix size $PKG.

Regards,
Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou