Re: GNOME: Suggesting ‘guix gc’ upon low disk space

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> It never occurred to me to patch applications to do more useful things
> in a Guix context, because we have always been rather conservative in
> applying patches.  But I think this is a good idea.

Yes, it’s an exception to our zero-patch policy, but I think it’s worth
it.

> I don’t know the answer.  If we submit the patch upstream, though, we’d
> probably have to make it conditional, perhaps depending on the presence
> of /gnu/store or something like that.

Yeah.  It may be a hard sell, even within an #ifdef.

Ludo’.