From: Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>, Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "guix system reconfigure" downloads 2G of stuff it doesn't need
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:45:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le1f7qpf.fsf@lease-up.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZqvyX6zFqmo-eC1R@jasmine.lan>
Hi Leo,
On Thu, Aug 01 2024, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> [...] and, equally importantly, why they are _not_ considered
>> necessary by "guix gc"?
>
> The short answer is "to save disk space at the potential cost of
> increased network usage".
I am not sure I agree with your framing. While adjustments to the
garbage collector may prevent downloads, I believe some prerequisites
are undeclared (although I cannot say which ones or why).
Like Zack, I think 'guix gc' should not remove items needed to
reconfigure a system or to reinstall the bootloader, at least not for
the current system generation.
> you can run the guix-daemon with the argument "--gc-keep-outputs=yes",
> and maybe also "--gc-keep-derivations=yes":
I have been doing that, but in my estimation what is being kept exceeds
what's needed by a wide degree.
Kind regards
Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-01 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-29 14:31 "guix system reconfigure" downloads 2G of stuff it doesn't need Zack Weinberg
2024-07-30 14:43 ` Leo Famulari
2024-07-30 17:56 ` Zack Weinberg
2024-08-01 20:38 ` Leo Famulari
2024-08-01 23:45 ` Felix Lechner via [this message]
2024-08-02 11:53 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2024-08-02 17:58 ` Felix Lechner via
2024-08-02 19:04 ` Marek Paśnikowski
2024-08-06 8:52 ` Marek Paśnikowski
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