Hi Leo, hi Guix, On Sat 5 Apr 2025 at 7:27 pm CEST, Leo Famulari wrote: > I have nothing like that with Guix itself (compared to Guix Home), but > it's still a lot: > > $ find ~/.guix-profile/share/icons/ -type l -printf x | wc -c > 77714
Thanks for confirming it's not just me! :) I've created a minimal reproducer of the problem at the guix repl: --8<---------------cut here--------------->8-- $ guix repl scheme@(guix-user)> ,use (gnu packages gtk) ; for `gtk+' scheme@(guix-user)> ,use (gnu packages gnome-xyz) ; for `papirus-icon-theme' scheme@(guix-user)> ,use (guix build union) scheme@(guix-user)> ,use (guix profiles) scheme@(guix-user)> ,use (guix monad-repl) scheme@(guix-user)> (define gtk-icon-themes (@@ (guix profiles) gtk-icon-themes)) scheme@(guix-user)> ,run-in-store (gtk-icon-themes (packages->manifest (list papirus-icon-theme gtk+))) $1 = #<derivation /gnu/store/26mhjywzy2k9317r6919d84mnchmh3di-gtk-icon-themes.drv => /gnu/store/b0jpr69mrczigdz0p0dy1mlnqgwanxf7-gtk-icon-themes 7f3d000cc820> scheme@(guix-user)> ,build $1 $2 = "/gnu/store/b0jpr69mrczigdz0p0dy1mlnqgwanxf7-gtk-icon-themes" scheme@(guix-user)> ,build papirus-icon-theme $3 = "/gnu/store/s69hs11nn6bxi32by6ab1qaq36kgpvva-papirus-icon-theme-20250201" scheme@(guix-user)> (define tmpdir (string-append (mkdtemp "/tmp/guix-profile-XXXXXX") "/profile")) scheme@(guix-user)> ,run-in-store (union-build tmpdir (list $2 $3)) --8<---------------cut here--------------->8-- Warning: loads and loads of output -- one line for every one of the 1.4 million symlinks created! You can also inspect the tree /tmp/guix-profile-*/profile/share/icons to see that indeed, each icon file is symlinked individually. If I build a union that does not include both the icon theme and the result of the `gtk-icon-themes' hook, such as the following: --8<---------------cut here--------------->8-- scheme@(guix-user)> ,build gtk+ $4 = "/gnu/store/w70sdx3n5bhancx10x1jfphq5v8943is-gtk+-3.24.43-bin" $5 = "/gnu/store/4qrbd85gy5j38fj9prk8w31zchlxh3k1-gtk+-3.24.43" scheme@(guix-user)> (define tmpdir (string-append (mkdtemp "/tmp/guix-profile-XXXXXX") "/profile")) scheme@(guix-user)> ,run-in-store (union-build tmpdir (list $2 $5)) --8<---------------cut here--------------->8-- ...then the icon themes are linked correctly in that profile, i.e. a single symlink per theme under /tmp/guix-profile-*/profile/share/icons/. Therefore, the problem must be including both the icon theme packages and the result of the `gtk-icon-themes' hook in the same profile. Would it make sense for Guix to remove the icon theme packages from the profile before trying to build the final union? The icons should still be linked through the result of `gtk-icon-themes'. Cheers, Timo
