Alex Kost writes: > Christopher Allan Webber (2016-02-25 03:30 +0300) wrote: > >> Heya all, >> >> I'm a bit confused about profile management for profiles that *aren't* >> your system or default user profile. >> >> guix package --profile=/home/cwebber/guix-profiles/test -i hello >> >> then I run "guix gc", it seems like that profile is still kept around. >> >> David seemed to think that maybe the profile link would be under >> /var/guix/profiles/ > [...] >> What's keeping that profile around? Will it ever get gc'ed? Is it >> somehow recorded in Guix's state files? > > Look at /var/guix/gcroots/auto/. If you remove old generations, they > will be removed from gcroots/auto next time you run "guix gc".
Cool... okay! So when I delete that profile directory it does appropriately gc things. Very neat!
