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Resent-From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: guix-patches@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 11:57:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41538 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix-patches X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: 41538@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 41538-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41538.15907534052699 (code B ref 41538); Fri, 29 May 2020 11:57:01 +0000 Received: (at 41538) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 May 2020 11:56:45 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54027 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jedck-0000hD-Rs for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2020 07:56:45 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42878) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jedci-0000gy-Bu for 41538@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2020 07:56:29 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jedcc-0002er-4L; Fri, 29 May 2020 07:56:22 -0400 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=43398 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jedcb-0006XD-8S; Fri, 29 May 2020 07:56:21 -0400 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= References: <20200526132219.27748-1-mail@ambrevar.xyz> <874krzagy6.fsf@gnu.org> <87wo4vf5sy.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 11 Prairial an 228 de la =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 13:56:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87wo4vf5sy.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Fri, 29 May 2020 11:29:01 +0200") Message-ID: <87imgf3qfw.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) X-BeenThere: guix-patches@gnu.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" X-Scanner: scn0 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-patches-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-patches-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: 0.49 X-TUID: gcJfnPB+rHJG Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> =E2=80=98guix gc --delete-generations=3D1m=E2=80=99 deletes generations = of both >> ~/.guix-profile and ~/.config/guix/current. (When running as root it >> does that for all the users.) > > Today I learned something! :) > >> I would not recommend =E2=80=98guix system delete-generations=E2=80=99 h= ere because it=E2=80=99s >> only accessible to root. > > I still find it a useful tip because system generations may eat up a lot > of space and are easily forgotten. > > What about adding "if you have root privileges"? We could do that, but again people on =E2=80=9Cforeign distros=E2=80=9D etc= . could be confused and overwhelmed. I=E2=80=99d lean towards keeping it concise. >>> +You might also want to delete old non-default profiles pointed to by >>> +the symlinks in /var/guix/gcroots/auto (broken symlinks in this >>> +directory will be automatically removed).") >> >> IMO hints should remain concise, and I=E2=80=99m afraid this might be to= o much. >> Also, /var/guix/gcroots/auto is an implementation detail; I=E2=80=99d re= commend >> running =E2=80=98guix package --list-profiles=E2=80=99 instead. > > Good point. What about this then? > > You might also want to delete old non-default profiles returned by `guix > package --list-profiles`. SGTM! (Use @command markup in the actual hint.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.