Hi Guix! I've been running Guix System for a few weeks now, and I've noticed that I have two copies of some libraries in my store (e.g. mesa, gtk) even after updating all packages, deleting old profile generations, and running gc.
This isn't a problem, as I have plenty of disk space, but I'm just curious to understand why this happens. For example, I have both /gnu/store/lcqz4q3834bjd3dlc8zsr95mvzz9n006-mesa-21.3.8 /gnu/store/wj1nipayc74yalfmdg7wwimkfc1macbl-mesa-21.3.8 Using 'guix gc --referrers', I can see that: - The first copy is referred to by all applications in my profile that link against mesa, e.g. icecat. - The second copy is referred to directly by my profile. Indeed, I can see that, for example, ~/.guix-profile/lib/libGL.so is a symlink to /gnu/store/wj1nipayc74yalfmdg7wwimkfc1macbl-mesa-21.3.8/lib/libGL.so. So my question boils down to: why is the copy of mesa in ~/.guix-profile/lib different to the one to which programs in the same profile are linked? And is there any guix command I can use to inspect exactly how/why these copies differ? Thanks! - Mike
