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To: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:35:56PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
> Federico Beffa (2017-03-12 18:28 +0100) wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've created a profile for test purposes with
> >
> > guix package -p $HOME/guix-test-profile -m test-manifest.scm
> >
> > that now I would like to delete.  I've looked up the documentation but
> > not found any suitable command.  What's the recommended procedure to
> > delete it?
> 
> I would simply remove it and all its generations
> ("$HOME/guix-test-profile-XX-link") manually.  I don't know if there is
> any recommended way to do it though.

That removes the symlinks to a directory in /var/guix/profiles. I
think you also need to remove the links in the latter if you want the
garbage collection to work. 

Is that correct?

Pj.