Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?

[swedebugia]

Hi

On 2018-11-09 11:58, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> > : > When I want to free up some disk space, I do the following steps:
> > : >
> > : > (1) update my user profiles and delete old generations
> > : > (2) delete older generations in /var/guix/profiles (but always
> > : >      keeping the one referenced by /run/booted-system!)
> > : > (3) reconfigure the system to remove the old system profiles from
> > : >      grub.cfg
> > : > (4) guix gc
> > : This would be nice to have in the manual I think.
> >
> > Would you like to propose a patch?
> Note that for a while Guix now suggest (1) and (4) when the store is low on
> space.
>
> I like interactive help, I think it reaches a wider audience than just the
> manual.
> Having both is also great, at the expense of risking inconsistencies if one is
> updated but not the other.
Thanks for the heads up! I totally agree. Guix is way too silent to my 
taste, comparing with e.g. pacman and git.

Generally I see the documentation in a manual as something complementing 
the program - not an excuse to keep the error messages very terse and 
refrain from gently nudging the user in the right direction.

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Cheers
Swedebugia