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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: A few questions about packages
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Jone <yeger9@gmail.com> writes:

>> On 07/03/2018, Jone wrote:
>
>> Hello. Can I remove old package versions and other builds? On the
>> example of Icecat:
>>
>>   252.1 MiB [ ]
>> /5ym67s5vp1vmnc3y4ds4r3687vc3nl25-icecat-52.6.0-gnu1
>>   252.0 MiB [ ]
>> /360i9ca4gnm3rsjj8v43ih0j3mfrp40n-icecat-52.6.0-gnu1
>>   246.8 MiB [ ]
>> /kd0nnq3i0qarx4vqxcampxfj3igxn84h-icecat-52.3.0-gnu1
>
> Seems I has understood not until the end of..
> After running 'guix package -d && guix gc':
>
> ls -d /gnu/store/*gtk+*/ [=E2=80=A6]

Your user=E2=80=99s profiles are not the only ones that can keep packages a=
live.
You also have a system profile with potentially multiple generations.
They are stored under /var/guix/profiles/system*

> (guix gc --optimize not do anything)

As the manual says, this is for deduplicating files in the store.

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Ricardo

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