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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Subject: What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:30:43 -0800
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Heya all,

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.

David seemed to think that maybe the profile link would be under
/var/guix/profiles/

cwebber@oolong:~$ find /var/guix/profiles/
/var/guix/profiles/
/var/guix/profiles/system-20-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-21-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-7-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-6-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-10-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-22-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-188-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-187-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-189-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-186-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-191-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-192-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-193-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-194-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-185-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/cwebber/guix-profile-190-link
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root
/var/guix/profiles/system-12-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-11-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-1-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-14-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-19-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-18-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-15-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-13-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-17-link
/var/guix/profiles/system
/var/guix/profiles/system-5-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-8-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-4-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-9-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-3-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-16-link
/var/guix/profiles/system-2-link

It doesn't look like it.

What's keeping that profile around?  Will it ever get gc'ed?  Is it
somehow recorded in Guix's state files?

Just curious,
 - Chris