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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Matthew Brooks <matthewfbrooks@mailbox.org>
Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything?
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 15:16:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhtonhd8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181129210707.3dbf5f5a@mailbox.org> (Matthew Brooks's message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:07:07 -0600")

Hello,

Matthew Brooks <matthewfbrooks@mailbox.org> skribis:

> Is there any recommended way to have guix gc only delete packages that aren't required to build anything?

To complement what others say, I use a low-tech but good enough
approach, which is to GC just as much as I need, e.g., by running
“guix gc -F80G” once in a while.

The store items to be deleted are chosen at random but overall it works
well for me.

Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-02 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-30  3:07 guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything? Matthew Brooks
2018-11-30  5:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-11-30  8:54   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-11-30 20:29     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-11-30 23:14       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-01  5:13         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-01 13:49       ` Joshua Branson
2018-12-03  2:16         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-03  2:50           ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-03 18:06           ` Joshua Branson
2018-12-10 10:27             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-12-11 19:40       ` George Clemmer
2018-12-12 10:38         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-12-12 23:10           ` George Clemmer
2019-01-09 19:03       ` George Clemmer
2018-12-02 14:16 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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