From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed? Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:57:46 +0300 Message-ID: <878u261nmt.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87si0hr5qk.fsf@dustycloud.org> <8737sh11x1.fsf@gmail.com> <8760xbfc1q.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZbdE-0001xk-85 for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:57:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZbdA-0006NI-7m for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:57:48 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x22a.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::22a]:35788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aZbd9-0006NC-Vy for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:57:44 -0500 Received: by mail-lf0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id l143so66606076lfe.2 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 01:57:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8760xbfc1q.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:32:01 +0100") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Ricardo Wurmus (2016-02-26 23:32 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber (2016-02-25 03:30 +0300) wrote: >> >>> I'm a bit confused about profile management for profiles that *aren't* >>> your system or default user profile. >>> >>> guix package --profile=/home/cwebber/guix-profiles/test -i hello >>> >>> then I run "guix gc", it seems like that profile is still kept around. > > [...] > >>> What's keeping that profile around? Will it ever get gc'ed? Is it >>> somehow recorded in Guix's state files? >> >> Look at /var/guix/gcroots/auto/. > > It would be nice to have a user interface for that, too, so that users > can quickly get an overview on all their custom profiles that may be > littered across local and remote filesystems. > > What do you think? Great idea! I hope I'll add an Emacs UI for this some day (not now). -- Alex