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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 05:28:52PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
> No, "$HOME/guix-test-profile" was not a symlink to
> "/var/guix/profiles/...".  Try this:

Hmmm. You are right. ~/.guix-profile, meanwile, does point inside
/var/guix. 

I have wondered before how GC works on profiles not in /var/guix.

Where does it store that state? In the database? I mean, if I simply
remove the symlink

  lrwxrwxrwx  1 wrk   502   51 Feb 19 09:38 guix-build-system-1-link -> /gnu/store/0lyv2p35ziymd6xjrfxy8sp502n2ii5d-profile

how does Guix know it can GC /gnu/store/0lyv2p35ziymd6xjrfxy8sp502n2ii5d-profile?

Pj.