From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Plan for 0.9.0 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:11:34 -0500 Message-ID: <87oag0qkxe.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87io6b943m.fsf@gnu.org> <878u75ql2q.fsf@gnu.org> <87eggxfc5o.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87k2qpp1ko.fsf@gnu.org> <20151014170227.3a293b5a@openmailbox.org> <874mhsiae1.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87vba8gurr.fsf@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53863) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmjHv-0004vT-Cg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:13:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmjHq-0007iC-MU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:13:47 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Daniel Pimentel Cc: guix-devel , guix-devel-bounces+d4n1=opmbx.org@gnu.org Daniel Pimentel writes: >> The GC is not too greedy. It's doing exactly what it should. The >> issue is that we need more tools to let people protect things from the >> GC that they want protected. One example that is that 'guix >> environment' will eventually generate profiles that are registered as >> GC roots, which will protect development environments from the GC. > > Good tip. > > I'm sorry for this discussion :( There's no need to be sorry. This was a useful conversation. I think it's worth recognizing the pain points users are hitting. Even though Dave's solution keeps "guix gc" as needed, it's helping highlighting how much we need such solutions in order for things to be useful to users. Which means, happy continued hacking, I guess! :) - Chris