"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Mathieu Lirzin <m...@openmailbox.org> wrote: [...] >> I think the enthusiasm for changing ‘guix gc’ was induced by somekind of >> shared experience of typing it loosely and ending up having to download >> a lot of substitutes again. So maybe we can keep ‘guix gc’ as it is but >> make it interactive by listing what is going to be deleted and ask for >> confirmation with a [Y/n] prompt. This solution will also require >> somekind of a ‘--force’ option for scripting purposes. >> >> Does it sound better? > > In general, I do not like interactive CLIs. I'm fine with 'guix gc' > working as-is. The re-downloading lots of substitutes issue is not an > issue about the CLI, but rather about not making store items that you > want to hang around GC roots.
You mean a problem between the keyboard and the chair, or a problem with the GC being too greedy? -- Mathieu Lirzin
