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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything?
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:14:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftvif98t.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mupqnwap.fsf@netris.org>

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> Contrary to what Pierre wrote above, I've found that the use of these
> flags certainly does _not_ lead to an ever-growing store.

According to the discussion I linked above, The reason behind the ever-growing
store are substitutes.  So if you don't use them, then the store size should be
stable indeed.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-30 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-30  3:07 guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything? Matthew Brooks
2018-11-30  5:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-11-30  8:54   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-11-30 20:29     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-30 23:14       ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2018-12-01  5:13         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-01 13:49       ` Joshua Branson
2018-12-03  2:16         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-03  2:50           ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-03 18:06           ` Joshua Branson
2018-12-10 10:27             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-11 19:40       ` George Clemmer
2018-12-12 10:38         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-12 23:10           ` George Clemmer
2019-01-09 19:03       ` George Clemmer
2018-12-02 14:16 ` Ludovic Courtès

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