From: Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Unstable Horse <stable.master@unstable.horse>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Whta is the significance of ~/.cache/guix/profiles?
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:47:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tturt12z.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2eae3f88d9959149786c82530f5840c27f053af7.camel@unstable.horse>
Unstable Horse <stable.master@unstable.horse> writes:
> Good day, people.
>
> I'm trying to GC my system for the first time, and after running this
> command:
>
> guix gc --list-roots | sort -u
>
> Among the expected roots such as guix-profile-*-link and
> current-guix-*-link I also see dozens of lines like this one:
>
> /home/user/.cache/guix/profiles/wjel4twocqclznutccv2mx65a5rxpb6e7lluegd
> zsksvdy3lp74a
>
> with just the hash and no name. What are they for? Is it safe to just
>
> rm -rf ~/.cache/guix/profiles
>
> once in a while, or should I leave them be?
Just guessing based on a quick check of the contents of it on my
machine: probably serves as a cache of guix shell profiles.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-29 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-26 15:07 Whta is the significance of ~/.cache/guix/profiles? Unstable Horse
2023-06-29 0:47 ` Csepp [this message]
2023-06-29 4:36 ` Felix Lechner via
2023-06-29 8:31 ` wolf
2023-06-29 17:19 ` Unstable Horse
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