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 ---- On Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:05:44 -0500  <mlell@posteo.de> wrote ----
 > Hi!
 > 
 > guix gc is responsible for removing unneeded packages. From
 > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-gc.html:
 > 
 > > The garbage collector has a set of known roots: any file under 
 > > /gnu/store reachable from a
 > > root is considered live and cannot be deleted; any other file is 
 > > considered dead and may
 > > be deleted.  ... the symlinks under /var/guix/gcroots represent these 
 > > GC roots.
 > 
 > My own experience is that guix gc reports and removes dead symlinks in 
 > this directory. So I
 > guess just remove the symlinks you listed:
 > 
 > 
 > > $ guix package --list-profiles
 > > /home/sirgazil/.devenvs/my-project/my-project
 > > /home/sirgazil/.devenvs/project-a/project-a
 > > /home/sirgazil/.config/guix/current
 > > /home/sirgazil/.guix-profile
 > > 
 > 
 > and then call guix gc.


Thank you, Moritz. I'll do that then.