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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:32:22 +0200
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> Not yet!  You could do it manually roughly by (1) listing the referrers
> of the store item, recursively, and (2) finding the symlinks in
> /var/guix/gcroots that point to one of these.

In the example in my first message, the referrers of the .drv are either
non-existent or the .drv itself.  In this case, there should be no GC root =
then,
right?  Why is the item considered alive?

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Pierre Neidhardt
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