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Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>

Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> skribis:

> On Tue 14 Mar 2017 17:43, Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Federico Beffa (2017-03-14 09:42 +0100) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I run 'guix gc' and now I find dangling symlinks in my $HOME.
>>>
>>> What dangling symlinks?  Just remove them :-)
>>
>> Of this type:
>>
>> $HOME/guix-test-profile-XXX-link -> /gnu/store/...
>>
>> Yes, sure, I deleted them.  It just seems strange that a GC leaves
>> dangling links around.
>
> Currently, profiles that aren't in your ~/.guix-profile are not treated
> as GC roots (AFAIR).

They *are* GC roots (fortunately :-)).  If you do =E2=80=9Cguix package -p =
foo -i
guile=E2=80=9D, you can see a symlink to =E2=80=98foo-1-link=E2=80=99 is ad=
ded to
/var/guix/gcroots/auto.

Ludo=E2=80=99.