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From: Unstable Horse To: wolf , Csepp Cc: Felix Lechner , help-guix@gnu.org Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:19:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <2eae3f88d9959149786c82530f5840c27f053af7.camel@unstable.horse> <87tturt12z.fsf@riseup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.48.3 (by Flathub.org) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Host-Lookup-Failed: Reverse DNS lookup failed for 140.82.58.198 (failed) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=140.82.58.198; envelope-from=stable.master@unstable.horse; helo=unstable.horse X-Spam_score_int: -10 X-Spam_score: -1.1 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Jul 2023 09:50:40 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1688305869; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=XaPrwvynvCqmXsRyiuqT9wX92pWRCxOAvl76bgx7L4w=; b=amzfZvV6KG45PzeaX7B/2i3ntcgDzHg/vGxBhG479Df03badAV8ucRztscIHVLOsbPiAuw 1g/drik/+DTc9H/WLv2Nl82EYEgTY9rjKyxJjkseAecX1KESVmFEPdVBPlsx+JK60oJfp6 z23HH7z0sbXIFGet6fuY8e91p37S6dnBsCrrX8QIa0ArrjaJeFoxdtcwj6ohzx5HMeEvPE hDSEpEiLDcgUCoCUD9vtgnUDiP6HLx4+OesiJ0IA3zvsAVUfxpouX42CB1ODN776zupMaN 9f3bleCXgr0hglFViz7CEHsFXl9PVqpcRmrI8ROWKyKhJYWJfBH99Mp4P+6vsQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed), No valid DKIM" header.from=unstable.horse (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1688305869; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=q21MQKY+dfJeu1p+7x6YDqUhFJf3f2WP3OkFVD23UHC9V2oA5uVX2lYKebnqSup6/fYFxr yvWf7XTBg/XXSXSMR1ucDDYm4/oify0P0IC0LIOgiQD5ZTVv767dzyf/Bw9+pV92ZY/aXv x8qd4Z6WhkEHwt5+xVorbgHFMcw2G9ufrZL3gYKvgxFhs6dYSEXKOBktJuwhvJ1uyzBwWA JMROxNp96nSSlADPHganPxJ/jjRpMn3lrrG9nTfDEuML7gcgqSgjw2j3YOFUBjsuo8QB9J 6cyjVhCwWaG4WjD9H26qfQxgomMKKNPKZIDja97Z3BSJ4ZegHz9kPUyGcR2e2A== X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: 0.55 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=fail reason="SPF not aligned (relaxed), No valid DKIM" header.from=unstable.horse (policy=none); spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 474C439D46 X-Spam-Score: 0.55 X-TUID: z5vTROssDwn2 On Thu, 2023-06-29 at 02:47 +0200, Csepp wrote: > Just guessing based on a quick check of the contents of it on my > machine: probably serves as a cache of guix shell profiles. That checks out, I did use guix shell a few times. On Thu, 2023-06-29 at 10:31 +0200, wolf wrote: > The links serve as additional roots for the garbage collector, so if > your remove them, more items from the store can be collected, > possibly a lot more items.=C2=A0 On the other hand, those links should be > automatically cleaned after some time by guix shell.=C2=A0 So if you want > to do as thorough clean as possible, removing the links makes sense, > but if you just want to some light cleaning, you might very well > leave it up to the guix shell. Nice, I didn't know guix shell would eventually clean them up. Thanks everyone for the info! Also, sorry for the title. :)