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Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> skribis:

> Talking about interactive CLIs, in general I am not a fan of it too,
> especially after you get used to the program. That's why I am using
> plain apt-get instead of aptitude which uses ncurses. However, I will
> say it is sometimes useful. For example, in git clean, there is an
> `-i' switch, which can help if you don't want to mess with your
> .gitignore file. So perhaps making something GC roots is like putting
> it in .gitignore in git, but we should still provide a way for
> interacting GC-ing.

Currently there are two documented ways to add GC roots from the command
line: creating a profile with =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99, and using the=
 -r option of
=E2=80=98guix build.=E2=80=99

What David suggests is to add a similar -r option to =E2=80=98guix environm=
ent=E2=80=99,
which sounds good to me.

The GC process itself will not be interactive.  Who would want to hit
=E2=80=98y=E2=80=99 or =E2=80=98n=E2=80=99 for each one of the thousands of=
 files considered?  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.