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>=20
> For example, let consider this scenario:
>=20
>   guix package --install list of packages # (1)
>   guix package -i other ones -r some # (2)
>   guix package --upgrade # (3)
>   guix package -i again -r bye bye # (4)
>   guix package --roll-back # (5)
>   guix package -i kikoo # (6)
> etc.
>=20
> Now, the profile at the generation (6) is fine and you want to garbage
> collect all the previous generations. But you know that the generation
> (2) was ok. To my knowledge, it is not easy to GC the generations 1,
> 3, 4, 5 without collecting the 2.
>=20

In this scenario you can run 'guix gc --delete-generations=3D1,3,4,5'


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