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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>,
	Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 52805@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#52805] [PATCH] substitute: Add a ‘--clear-cache’ option.
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:49:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <864k6rjqzr.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmphhg8q.fsf@nckx>

Hi Tobias,

On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 22:20, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org> wrote:

>> Maybe "guix gc" would be a better place?
>
> No, I'd rather not add yet another option to ‘guix gc’ that has
> nothing to do with GC.

Why?  Well, garbage collection is about automatic memory management and
cache is about efficiency of memory usage.  Therefore, it is appears to
me relevant to have an option “guix gc --clear-cache” to force the clean
of various caches.

Cheers,
simon





  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-29 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-26 16:21 [bug#52805] [PATCH] substitute: Add a ‘--clear-cache’ option Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2021-12-27 21:12 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-12-27 21:20   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2021-12-29 16:49     ` zimoun [this message]
2022-01-05 20:59     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-05 22:41       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2022-01-11 12:47         ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-01-11 18:00           ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2022-01-12 21:04             ` Ludovic Courtès

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