On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 11:40:05PM +0000, pkill9 wrote: > I have nyxt installed, which has sbcl-cl-webkit as an input, which has > webkitgtk as an input, and recently it produced an error which was > fixed by building webkitgtk, so it wasn't in the store. > > sbcl-cl-webkit won't be deleted by `guix gc`, however webkitgtk will > be, so it seems it's not protected from garbage collection by > sbcl-cl-webkit. Am I wrong in this?
You can check on this with the `guix gc` tool. Specifically, like this: $ guix gc --references $(guix build sbcl-cl-webkit) That will show you the "store references" of the built sbcl-cl-webkit package. These store references are strings that refer to files in /gnu/store, found by scanning the result of building sbcl-cl-webkit. These references are recorded in the Guix database at '/var/guix/db/db.sqlite'. The built package must keep references to its runtime dependencies, or they will be subject to garbage collection, and that would represent a bug in the package definition. Does that make sense?
