Nicolas Graves via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> skribis:
> Hi Guix, > > I feel the way `guix gc` choose its files to delete quite > inconvenient. For instance, when developping big programs locally, I > often find myself missing space, but when I will `guix gc -C30G`, > instead of the expected unused items (not present in any profile, just > built but discarded as the package I'm building is updated for > instance), I will instead loose most of the native-inputs that are > needed to build my `guix home` and `guix system`. > > This make me stuck in an endless loop of removing / redownloading over > and over the same native-inputs, while my intention is first to remove > files that aren't these native-inputs. > > I haven't delved into `guix gc` yet, how hard is that issue to solve? Hi. Is the guix-daemon of your system started with the "--gc-keep-derivations=yes" and "--gc-keep-outputs=yes" options? It should prevent "guix gc" from deleting the build dependencies of live profiles.
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