Alex Vong <alexvong1...@gmail.com> skribis: > Regarding gc, I remember I accidentally ran "guix gc" and removed all > the build dependencies like bash, glibc... Then, I realized the proper > way to run gc is to run "guix gc -d <DIRECTORY>".
I wouldn’t call it “the proper way.” Most of the time, I simply want to free space on my disk, so I run either, say, ‘guix gc -C500M’ if I’m in a hurry, or ‘guix gc’. The ‘-d’ switch is really for specific cases. But as Taylan notes, you should run guix-daemon with --gc-keep-outputs --gc-keep-derivations to avoid losing the build time dependencies. > Perhaps we should change the command for garbage collecting everything > from "guix gc" to "guix gc -a" and "guix gc --all". Does this sound > reasonable? Dunno, I admit I’m not as enthusiastic as the other people here. :-) What would ‘guix gc’ (without any option) do? Thanks, Ludo’.
