Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> skribis: > On Tue 14 Mar 2017 17:43, Federico Beffa <be...@ieee.org> writes: > >> Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Federico Beffa (2017-03-14 09:42 +0100) wrote: >>> >>>> I run 'guix gc' and now I find dangling symlinks in my $HOME. >>> >>> What dangling symlinks? Just remove them :-) >> >> Of this type: >> >> $HOME/guix-test-profile-XXX-link -> /gnu/store/... >> >> Yes, sure, I deleted them. It just seems strange that a GC leaves >> dangling links around. > > Currently, profiles that aren't in your ~/.guix-profile are not treated > as GC roots (AFAIR).
They *are* GC roots (fortunately :-)). If you do “guix package -p foo -i guile”, you can see a symlink to ‘foo-1-link’ is added to /var/guix/gcroots/auto. Ludo’.
