From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 18:39:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4a6vyqc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760xbfc1q.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:32:01 +0100")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber (2016-02-25 03:30 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> I'm a bit confused about profile management for profiles that *aren't*
>>> your system or default user profile.
>>>
>>> guix package --profile=/home/cwebber/guix-profiles/test -i hello
>>>
>>> then I run "guix gc", it seems like that profile is still kept around.
>
> [...]
>
>>> What's keeping that profile around? Will it ever get gc'ed? Is it
>>> somehow recorded in Guix's state files?
>>
>> Look at /var/guix/gcroots/auto/.
>
> It would be nice to have a user interface for that, too, so that users
> can quickly get an overview on all their custom profiles that may be
> littered across local and remote filesystems.
>
> What do you think?
Would be useful, indeed.
(Feel free to create ‘wishlist’-level items at bug-guix@gnu.org for good
ideas that don’t deserve to be forgotten. :-))
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-25 0:30 What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed? Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-25 11:10 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-25 17:03 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-26 20:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-27 9:57 ` Alex Kost
2016-02-27 17:39 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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