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bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove
From: |
Maxime Devos |
Subject: |
bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Apr 2021 20:44:45 +0200 |
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Evolution 3.34.2 |
On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 16:31 +0000, bo0od wrote:
> > Second, your operating-system declaration apparently is running
> > the avahi server. Since you didn't share it, I don't know if it comes
> > from a service dependency or if it's declared explicitely
>
> do you mean config.scm?
I'm not Julien Lepiller, but I believe that's wat asked for
-- the file with the (operating-system ...) declaration.
> if you need something type the command or where
> and i will bring it to you.
It's the *file* ‘we’ need. (Well, the file JL needs.)
It's not a command you need to type, it's a file you need
to attach to the e-mail.
> > When you run "guix remove" as user, it only affects your user profile,
> > in which there is no avahi or wpa-supplicant package. Also note that, if
> > any of your user's profile had a dependency on avahi, "guix remove
> > avahi" would not have any effect on it either, because it's not
> > installed explicitely, it's only present in the store to satisfy a
> > dependency.
>
> You dont consider that an issue when someone use guix remove x then ops
> guess what nothing indicate something can be done, and guess what no
> error message gonna tell you what the hell going on. Least can be said
> about this bad usability.
Currently the error message when removing a package not existing in the profile
is:
$ guix remove m17n-lib
guix remove: error: package 'm17n-lib' not found in profile
What do you think of adding a few hints? Some ideas:
guix remove: error: package 'm17n-lib' not found in profile
Hint: All users have their own profiles. To remove packages from the profile
of the root user, run "sudo guix remove PACKAGES" or equivalent.
Hint: On Guix System, packages can defined in the operating system declaration.
These are not affected by "guix remove PACKAGES".
and, when applicable:
Hint: 'm17n-lib' is propagated from 'MANUALLY-INSTALLED-PACKAGE', via N
intermediate
packages. Consider running "guix remove MANUALLY-INSTALLED-PACKAGE" instead.
Would that have been helpful to you?
Greetings,
Maxime.
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- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, bo0od, 2021/04/13
- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, bo0od, 2021/04/14
- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/14
- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, bo0od, 2021/04/15
- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/15
- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, bo0od, 2021/04/16
- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, Julien Lepiller, 2021/04/14
- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, bo0od, 2021/04/15
- bug#47748: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove, Julien Lepiller, 2021/04/15