On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > "Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > >> Just one question: I see that when using the 'references' type, each >> node in the graph has an arrow pointing to itself. Is that >> intentional? > > It’s not really “each node” but rather “most nodes.” :-) > > The daemon keeps track of all the references of each item, including > self-references. And it turns out that most packages record their > $prefix in their binaries, for instance, hence the self-reference. This > can be seen with ‘guix gc --references’ as well.
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation! - Dave
