Hello,
Simon Josefsson via <[email protected]> writes:
> I can't pretend to understand fully - but new user eyes on a piece of
> software is always something to pay attention to - and I may guess wrong
> what the mis-conception was here, but I found the mis-conception I'm
> thinking of interesting, so bear with me.
Agreed!
Two things we did in the past in an attempt to reduce misunderstandings
in this area are:
1. Adding ‘--delete-generations’ to ‘guix gc’ itself (previously you
had to use ‘guix package --delete-generations’ and ‘guix pull
--delete-generations’ to wipe generations of these profiles
specifically, and for each profile you may have).
2. Displaying a hint inviting you to run ‘guix gc
--delete-generations=1m’ when disk space is low (see
‘warn-about-disk-space’ in the source).
3. Adding a button in GNOME’s low-disk-space notification to run ‘guix
gc’ (see ‘gnome-settings-daemon-gc.patch’).
I think this has helped somewhat clarify the situation for newcomers,
but maybe we can do more in this direction?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
