From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich =?utf-8?Q?Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1?= =?utf-8?Q?=2FKammer?=) Subject: Re: Outdated config.scm in development repo Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:05:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87oag24mj9.fsf@T420.taylan> References: <871tcy63q0.fsf@T420.taylan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36817) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm4t1-0006TC-HB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:05:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm4t0-0004sa-LD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:05:23 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]:34147) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm4t0-0004sW-FE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:05:22 -0400 Received: by wicgb1 with SMTP id gb1so101547416wic.1 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:05:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (David Thompson's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:33:01 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Thompson, David" Cc: guix-devel "Thompson, David" writes: > Some day 'guix environment' will allow one to create a profile and > register it as a GC root and avoid this issue. Aha, that indeed sounds like a nice and clean way to solve the general issue, which I guess is that software built with 'guix environment' does not have the "privileges" of software built from a package recipe and put into the store, in particular the privilege of having dependencies protected from GC. Looking forward to it. :-) Taylan