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To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
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Hi Efraim,

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 09:39, Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:

> In this scenario you can run 'guix gc --delete-generations=1,3,4,5'

Cool!


It reminds me to add the '--no-<option>' to some wishlist. :-)

For example, see [1] about "guix lint". Something similar could be added here:

  guix gc --no-delete-generations=2

would garbage collect everything except the generation 2.

WDYT?


[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=37224#34



All the best,
simon