Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> Hello!  I wonder what others do to delete their system profile
> generations?  Here are some paths I know about.
>
> Path one: using the command line manually
>
>   # Look at which profiles are available
>   ls -l /var/guix/profiles/
>   # Remove them manually
>   rm /var/guix/profiles/system-{9,10,11}-link
>
> Path two: using emacs, but you gotta do it as root so:
>
>   # start up emacs as root, with the system generations listed:
>   sudo -E emacs -nw -q --eval "(progn (require 'guix) (guix-system-generations))"
>
>   # Now you can browse the generations with more information available,
>   # decide with a bit more care which ones to remove.
>   # Mark each one you want to remove with "D", and delete with "x".
>
> Is there a better way?  What do others do?  It doesn't seem there's a
> good way to delete from my current emacs session because it requires
> root privileges.
>
> guix-mode remains great, btw!
>
>  - Chris

There is the "guix system delete-generations ..." command which I think
does what you're looking for.