Re: Updating a very old Guix

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:

> GTK? Interesting. Could you share your package profile (guix package -I) 
> and config.scm?

The profile, yes, see below. both for my standard user account and for
root.  But no config.scm, I am not running GuixSD but Guix on top of
Debian.

You will see that my profile contains guix itself, which as to my
current understanding is not a good idea. I tried to remove it, but I
cannot even do "guix package -r guix" without compiling half of the free
software known in this universe. Including, once more, GTK, which is
probably a dependency of Emacs, but that's not a reason to compile GTK
for removing a package. It kind of looks like guix rebuilds all the
remaining stuff in my profile, which should not be necessary.

I realize of course that I am complaining about the performance of a
very old guix!

Cheers,
  Konrad.

My plain user profile:

Generation 42	Mar 23 2018 09:13:29	(current)
  python	3.6.3	out	/gnu/store/6zwqlrzz12sjnp06nh807kmy5q3zymwl-python-3.6.3
  r	3.4.3	out	/gnu/store/fjci8mjl3n05jjxfsxdh682qwkxb6qcr-r-3.4.3
  emacs-htmlize	1.51	out	/gnu/store/jd40vhyhwgf1afjnpvj33p9y1pb0sbd0-emacs-htmlize-1.51
  emacs-dash	2.13.0	out	/gnu/store/l3y1bkv4jhw7hgi552cafc0c70r2nk2m-emacs-dash-2.13.0
  emacs	25.3	out	/gnu/store/cajd1fkarcm002zcgfzl5i3gmmam2ry1-emacs-25.3
  syncthing	0.14.45	out	/gnu/store/iisxxp8wydi16nvz4xbh78s1lpliv01y-syncthing-0.14.45
  vdirsyncer	0.16.4	out	/gnu/store/i0w1vks78drwifgg2lqpzs0s8hd8yx0b-vdirsyncer-0.16.4
  unzip	6.0	out	/gnu/store/isp3x3aaviiivbh7vlvifh62dj3dqkzb-unzip-6.0
  mosh	1.3.2	out	/gnu/store/8gzqkya3wsvavlmdbc9c82xg4p78xpyh-mosh-1.3.2
  mercurial	4.4.1	out	/gnu/store/yc3fw4yfhxmsz2agi7cr83fn70fq2a7c-mercurial-4.4.1
  git	2.16.2	out	/gnu/store/d5l2wfccmyr817glb8vlavwkmx67p0qn-git-2.16.2
  nss-certs	3.35	out	/gnu/store/d48rkmvrbzaabxdldcrdps7cf27rm092-nss-certs-3.35
  glibc-locales	2.26.105-g0890d5379c	out	/gnu/store/j73ld7v624ix39imy94bncxzl8nirdn8-glibc-locales-2.26.105-g0890d5379c
  guix	0.14.0-9.bdf0c64	out	/gnu/store/3abjgr7dws69089lrfkf0n92qww1946j-guix-0.14.0-9.bdf0c64

Generation 43	Mar 26 2018 16:54:09
 - emacs-dash	2.13.0	out	/gnu/store/l3y1bkv4jhw7hgi552cafc0c70r2nk2m-emacs-dash-2.13.0
 - emacs-htmlize	1.51	out	/gnu/store/jd40vhyhwgf1afjnpvj33p9y1pb0sbd0-emacs-htmlize-1.51


The root profile:

Generation 1	Nov 29 2017 11:46:40
  guix	0.13.0	out	/gnu/store/vir3lrwqy50pr8fkaf3m091dgbrja2n6-guix-0.13.0
  glibc-utf8-locales	2.25	out	/gnu/store/g4g0zhcp5j9pyjmcv02ks4x2b48k252x-glibc-utf8-locales-2.25
  glibc	2.25	out	/gnu/store/rmjlycdgiq8pfy5hfi42qhw3k7p6kdav-glibc-2.25

Generation 2	Nov 29 2017 11:55:00
 + hello	2.10	out	/gnu/store/prvjrj6i8cz7rvkgm643h952bv2daj1h-hello-2.10

Generation 3	Nov 29 2017 11:56:11
 - hello	2.10	out	/gnu/store/prvjrj6i8cz7rvkgm643h952bv2daj1h-hello-2.10

Generation 4	Dec 07 2017 16:37:34	(current)
 + glibc	2.25	out	/gnu/store/38kr8xi7nib8rx8xr4gi0w0d8knyca3k-glibc-2.25
 + glibc-utf8-locales	2.25	out	/gnu/store/xa391b23r5lbwxb9q26sq5rq1fkd1xi3-glibc-utf8-locales-2.25
 + guix	0.13.0-13.3fb6464	out	/gnu/store/sy84f3kbjj2f2nl1ljbdcmsqrz8j8nqn-guix-0.13.0-13.3fb6464
 - glibc	2.25	out	/gnu/store/rmjlycdgiq8pfy5hfi42qhw3k7p6kdav-glibc-2.25
 - glibc-utf8-locales	2.25	out	/gnu/store/g4g0zhcp5j9pyjmcv02ks4x2b48k252x-glibc-utf8-locales-2.25
 - guix	0.13.0	out	/gnu/store/vir3lrwqy50pr8fkaf3m091dgbrja2n6-guix-0.13.0