Re: GC hints

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

On 2018-12-23 16:58, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Ludovic,
>>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Actually, I was also wondering whether we should provide a configurable
>>>> mechanism that would, by default, automatically delete old GC roots and
>>>> maybe even run the GC automatically when needed—similar to what Git
>>>> does.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> I think it's reasonable to automatically run GC by default, but I would
>>> strongly advise against deleting GC roots automatically by default
>>> without the user's knowledge and consent.
>>
>> Just to be clear, I agree with you, Mark.  Guix shouldn't delete GC
>> roots automatically by default.  I think we were just saying that it
>> might be nice if a user could configure Guix to automatically delete GC
>> roots according to some policy (e.g., retain the last 2, and delete any
>> others older than 1 month).  Guix would only delete the GC roots
>> according to the policy that the user has set, and if no policy has been
>> set, the default would be not to delete any of the GC roots.
> 
> As long as it's not the default behavior, I think this would be a nice
> feature to have.
> 
>         Thanks!
>           Mark
> 

Pierre, could you send an updated patch?

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