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From: Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Cc: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: Garbage Collector
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 08:20:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHYt55CTGXytWtndvg+kEum0rn3CO7M3iwJpOLntJinG25zDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfba0be0-60e5-3304-6c3d-72b930f43823@posteo.de>

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:52 AM Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> The manual says that it is dangerous to use: "guix gc"
> because it can delete too much.

I agree that 'guix gc' deletes too much, but it's probably not
dangerous. You will just see some downloads and builds repeated when
reconfiguring later.

I believe 'guix gc' deletes items that are not garbage to me (but I am
new to Guix). Based on friendly advice I received, I currently use
these settings:

(guix-service-type
  config => (guix-configuration
    (inherit config)
    (extra-options (list "--gc-keep-derivations=yes" "--gc-keep-outputs=yes"))
...

Kind regards
Felix Lechner


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-25 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-25  9:51 Garbage Collector Gottfried
2022-07-25 14:57 ` (
2022-07-25 15:20 ` Felix Lechner via [this message]
2022-07-28 17:27   ` Gottfried
2022-07-28 17:36   ` Gottfried
2022-07-30  9:40   ` Gottfried
2022-08-09 20:18   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-10 16:06     ` Garbage Collector - for your Information Gottfried

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