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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "J. Eppler" <j.eppler@openmailbox.org>
Cc: 24194@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24194: GUIX gc - add warning
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:56:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160810185620.GA14104@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8108bd02-a9f8-fad9-e5a1-93416ece607b@openmailbox.org>

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 07:59:28PM -0400, J. Eppler wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I used GUIX for the first time and invoked: guix gc. The command deleted
> all my bootstrap files (gcc, binutils, findutils etc.). There should be
> a warning added to the manual page:
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-gc.html

I think the concept of garbage collector roots should be clarified in
the manual somehow and linked to from 'Invoking guix gc'. Or it could
even go in that section.

I was surprised to find that the string 'gcroots' does not appear in the
manual.

> I was actually assuming that guix gc removes orphan packages,
> build-caches, temporary files etc., but it does not seem to only do that.

In your case, things that are not garbage collector roots (that is, not
reachable from /var/guix/gcroots) could be considered orphans or
temporary. I agree the documentation should be improved.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-10 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-09 23:59 bug#24194: GUIX gc - add warning J. Eppler
2016-08-10  5:53 ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-10 18:56 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-11-12 21:43   ` Ludovic Courtès
     [not found]     ` <87d13l89yy.fsf@portkomputilo.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
     [not found]       ` <87h8swtjdp.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <87h8slrvyw.fsf@portkomputilo.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
2017-12-22  9:46           ` bug#29662: " Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-24 23:16             ` Joshua Branson
2018-01-16 21:16               ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira

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