From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Guix-Help <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 17:47:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a6b4f528-3799-35ad-8b10-93c6d33ff5cb@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efbu4iwa.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
Hi
On 2018-11-09 11:58, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
>> : > When I want to free up some disk space, I do the following steps:
>> : >
>> : > (1) update my user profiles and delete old generations
>> : > (2) delete older generations in /var/guix/profiles (but always
>> : > keeping the one referenced by /run/booted-system!)
>> : > (3) reconfigure the system to remove the old system profiles from
>> : > grub.cfg
>> : > (4) guix gc
>> : This would be nice to have in the manual I think.
>>
>> Would you like to propose a patch?
> Note that for a while Guix now suggest (1) and (4) when the store is low on
> space.
>
> I like interactive help, I think it reaches a wider audience than just the
> manual.
> Having both is also great, at the expense of risking inconsistencies if one is
> updated but not the other.
Thanks for the heads up! I totally agree. Guix is way too silent to my
taste, comparing with e.g. pacman and git.
Generally I see the documentation in a manual as something complementing
the program - not an excuse to keep the error messages very terse and
refrain from gently nudging the user in the right direction.
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-09 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-11 19:11 Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs? Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-12 10:55 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-13 9:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-13 9:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 9:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-14 10:57 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 17:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-14 18:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-14 21:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-14 22:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-11-09 6:53 ` swedebugia
2018-11-09 7:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-09 10:58 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-11-09 16:47 ` swedebugia [this message]
2018-11-13 20:31 ` Leo Famulari
2018-11-13 21:14 ` swedebugia
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