Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> skribis: > Am 02.06.2016 um 14:56 schrieb Thompson, David: >> Then just run 'guix gc' and it will remove everything that isn't >> currently included in a profile. > > This would remove much too much :-)
I usually run ‘guix gc -F 4G’ or similar, which removes just as much as needed. That works rather well for me. > I have quite some package to work on, including those with patches > pending for inclusion. The dependencies of these packages are not in a > profile (yet). Now when running `guix gc`, many packages need to be > downloaded again a few minutes later. They “need” to be downloaded again only if you want to rebuild them, yet without adding them to a profile or making them a GC root. :-) When needed, you can explicitly protect things from GC using profiles, or using ‘guix build -r’. Ludo’.
