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Subject: Deleting system generations
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:15:23 +0200
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Mekeor Melire <mekeor.melire@gmail.com> skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
>
>> Wait.  AFAIK one cannot delete system generations [yet].  Has that chang=
ed?
>>
>> But deleting user [package] generations works, yes.
>
> Somewhere on the mailing-list I found out that you can delete a system
> generation like this:
>
>     $ rm /var/guix/profiles/system-N-link
>     $ guix gc
>
> (as root?)

Yes, that=E2=80=99s all it takes.

Thomas: I think you (was it you?) started working on a =E2=80=98guix system
delete-generations=E2=80=99 sub-command so make it more accessible.  Any up=
date?
:-)

We should definitely add that command.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.