"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@openmailbox.org> wrote: >> "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: >>> In general, I do not like interactive CLIs. I'm fine with 'guix gc' >>> working as-is. The re-downloading lots of substitutes issue is not an >>> issue about the CLI, but rather about not making store items that you >>> want to hang around GC roots. >> >> You mean a problem between the keyboard and the chair, or a problem with >> the GC being too greedy? > > The GC is not too greedy. It's doing exactly what it should. The > issue is that we need more tools to let people protect things from the > GC that they want protected. One example that is that 'guix > environment' will eventually generate profiles that are registered as > GC roots, which will protect development environments from the GC.
Indeed, It would be nice to have such option. -- Mathieu Lirzin
