From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GC hints
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 23:03:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zvohso2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lb8xupw.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2018 07:12:16 -0500")
Mark H Weaver (2018-12-20 07:12 -0500) wrote:
> Hi Ludovic,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Actually, I was also wondering whether we should provide a configurable
>> mechanism that would, by default, automatically delete old GC roots and
>> maybe even run the GC automatically when needed—similar to what Git
>> does.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I think it's reasonable to automatically run GC by default, but I would
> strongly advise against deleting GC roots automatically by default
> without the user's knowledge and consent.
>
> It's certainly true that git performs GC automatically, but does it
> automatically delete GC roots by default? I've never seen it do this,
> and I would be surprised and angry if it did.
>
> I consider Guix GC roots to be potentially valuable user data,
> regardless of age. For example, an old GC root might be valuable
> because it was used to perform an experiment that should be repeatable,
> or because it is known to work reliably for a given job, and newer
> versions have not yet been tested.
>
> I, for one, expect my old profiles, system generations, and other GC
> roots to be kept unless I explicitly delete them, and I suspect I'm not
> alone. If I hadn't been paying close attention to Guix development, and
> later discovered that Guix had deleted my GC roots without my consent, I
> would be surprised and angry.
You are not alone! I completely agree with your points.
--
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-20 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-08 10:53 About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-09 4:35 ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-09 12:40 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-09 12:40 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-09 13:38 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-09 22:21 ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-10 8:22 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-17 9:12 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 2:48 ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-19 7:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 16:16 ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-19 16:28 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 16:31 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 16:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-25 17:51 ` swedebugia
2018-12-25 18:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-26 0:09 ` swedebugia
2020-05-20 8:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 13:49 ` GC hints Ludovic Courtès
2018-12-19 14:31 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-19 14:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-19 16:25 ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-20 12:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-20 20:03 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2018-12-21 8:30 ` Chris Marusich
2018-12-21 8:47 ` swedebugia
2018-12-23 15:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-25 12:05 ` swedebugia
2018-12-25 14:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-08 22:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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