From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: cleaning the store Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 12:58:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20160526165807.GA12189@jasmine> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5yc1-0000ae-Is for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:58:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5ybx-0001wY-Kf for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:58:21 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:58759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5ybw-0001tT-EL for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:58:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Catonano Cc: help-guix@gnu.org On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 06:36:39PM +0200, Catonano wrote: > I erased ALL the prevoius generations and still there are some elements > that "guix gc -d ..." cannot eliminate from the store because they turn out > to be "still alive" > > Of course emacs-cider is not installed in the current generation > > I don't understand. > > Is there a way to let guix tell me what is still pointing to those ? They are referred to by a profile. You can see the full list of your user's profiles with `guix package --list-generations`. Other users will have their own profiles. You can learn more about how to work with these profiles with `guix package --help` and also in the manual, 3.2 Invoking guix package.