Hi, Tanguy LE CARROUR <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi Julien, > > Thanks for your reply! > > Quoting Julien Lepiller (2023-03-22 18:24:37) >> Most likely, you're just seeing a weird behavior caused by grafts. […] >> When you reconfigure, guix needs to download the ungrafted package >> before it figures out it already has the graft. > > Oh… Oh… grafts! 🤯 > > >> Since they have the same name and version, I think you're just >> cwnfusing the two :) > > "Confused" is the appropriate word, indeed! 😅 > > The thing is, I've been (for the last few months! 😱) in the process of > writing home services definitions to replace **all** my configuration files, > so I run **a lot** of `guix home reconfigure`. The command usually takes 30 > seconds to run, but right after I `guix gc` it takes 10 minutes. So I > guess I should stop collecting garbage for the time being, which is most > inconvenient for it saves more than 4Go of disk space. I think we should do something on Guix's side too; it'd be more intuitive and save resource/time if the things needed by grafts were always available, i.e. prevented from being garbage collected. -- Thanks, Maxim
