From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>,
Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: delete profile
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:00:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vara8r7v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zigmssoi.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:09:01 +0100")
Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> skribis:
> On Tue 14 Mar 2017 17:43, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Federico Beffa (2017-03-14 09:42 +0100) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I run 'guix gc' and now I find dangling symlinks in my $HOME.
>>>
>>> What dangling symlinks? Just remove them :-)
>>
>> Of this type:
>>
>> $HOME/guix-test-profile-XXX-link -> /gnu/store/...
>>
>> Yes, sure, I deleted them. It just seems strange that a GC leaves
>> dangling links around.
>
> Currently, profiles that aren't in your ~/.guix-profile are not treated
> as GC roots (AFAIR).
They *are* GC roots (fortunately :-)). If you do “guix package -p foo -i
guile”, you can see a symlink to ‘foo-1-link’ is added to
/var/guix/gcroots/auto.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-15 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-12 17:28 delete profile Federico Beffa
2017-03-13 19:35 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 5:55 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-14 8:42 ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-14 14:36 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 16:43 ` Federico Beffa
2017-03-15 11:09 ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-15 16:00 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-03-16 9:13 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 14:28 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-14 15:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-16 9:13 ` Alex Kost
2017-03-16 12:18 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-14 13:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
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