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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: Re: cleaning the store
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 14:41:08 -0400
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On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 02:36:36PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 08:16:59PM +0200, Catonano wrote:
> > There are only 2 profiles on this machine: mine and root's profile
> > 
> > As for mine, I eliminated ALL previous generations and emacs-cider is not
> > installed in the current one
> > 
> > As for root's profile:
> > 
> > $ guix package -p root --list-installed
> > 
> > returns nothing
> > 
> > 
> > and
> > $ guix package -p root --list-generations
> > guix package: error: profile 'root' does not exist
> 
> I think the argument to '-p' is the generation of the profile (an
> integer). You should try running it as root, since I doubt you can read
> root's profiles as an unprivileged user.

Also, consider that what you see in `guix package --list-installed` are
the top-level packages, but not their dependents. This package may be
a dependent of some package you've installed in your profile.