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* guix gc, any way to delete only packages that aren't required to build anything?
@ 2018-11-30  3:07 Matthew Brooks
  2018-11-30  5:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus
  2018-12-02 14:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Brooks @ 2018-11-30  3:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-guix@gnu.org

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Is there any recommended way to have guix gc only delete packages that aren't required to build anything?
I've made a custom bash script that loops through the output of "guix gc --list-dead" and tells guix to delete any dead packages that have no --referers, but it's really slow (it can take several hours on my laptop).
My first attempt was just telling guix to delete everything in --list-dead, but that seemed to still delete some things that were required to build other things currently on the system somewhere.

Of course, running plain "guix gc" with no arguments is much faster, but requires redownloading loads of packages whenever I next go to pull, upgrade, or install anything.

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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

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