Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > Dika Setya Prayogi <dikasetyapray...@gmail.com> writes:
[...] >> 2.set auto garbage collect for package old than one month > > Garbage collection is not about age but about references. If a package > is referenced in a profile (even if it’s not the latest generation of > the profile) it won’t be collected. This is a feature. > > To achieve garbage collection of old packages you would have to remove > all old profile generations (so that older packages are no longer > referenced), and also make sure that no “old” packages are referenced in > the current profile generation. This essentially requires a forced > upgrade with deletion of older profile generations, which seems quite > unwise. You’d throw away some of the best features of Guix, in my > opinion. One could have a periodic job that runs: guix package --delete-generations=1m && guix gc This removes generations older than 1 month and then runs the GC. Depending on your use case, this may or may not be a good idea. I personally prefer to remove generations once I know I’m very unlikely to ever need to roll back to them. Ludo’.
