diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 2234d953b5c6cf20f50fd4b2014eaed3c3c30cb7..a12210db8a4f85320985463ad3f5cbe0c1d05f11 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -6913,12 +6913,15 @@ example:
 @example
 $ guix size coreutils
 store item                               total    self
-/gnu/store/@dots{}-coreutils-8.23          70.0    13.9  19.8%
-/gnu/store/@dots{}-gmp-6.0.0a              55.3     2.5   3.6%
-/gnu/store/@dots{}-acl-2.2.52              53.7     0.5   0.7%
-/gnu/store/@dots{}-attr-2.4.46             53.2     0.3   0.5%
-/gnu/store/@dots{}-gcc-4.8.4-lib           52.9    15.7  22.4%
-/gnu/store/@dots{}-glibc-2.21              37.2    37.2  53.1%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-gcc-5.5.0-lib           60.4    30.1  38.1%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-glibc-2.27              30.3    28.8  36.6%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-coreutils-8.28          78.9    15.0  19.0%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-gmp-6.1.2               63.1     2.7   3.4%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-bash-static-4.4.12       1.5     1.5   1.9%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-acl-2.2.52              61.1     0.4   0.5%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-attr-2.4.47             60.6     0.2   0.3%
+/gnu/store/@dots{}-libcap-2.25             60.5     0.2   0.2%
+total: 78.9 MiB
 @end example
 
 @cindex closure
@@ -6938,9 +6941,10 @@ item itself.  The last column shows the ratio of the size of the item
 itself to the space occupied by all the items listed here.
 
 In this example, we see that the closure of Coreutils weighs in at
-70@tie{}MiB, half of which is taken by libc.  (That libc represents a
-large fraction of the closure is not a problem @i{per se} because it is
-always available on the system anyway.)
+79@tie{}MiB, most of which is taken by libc and GCC's run-time support
+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.)
 
 When the package(s) passed to @command{guix size} are available in the
 store@footnote{More precisely, @command{guix size} looks for the