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*davexunit notices that there's no general crypto module.

<davexunit>where should I put a package for a crypto library?

<phant0mas>good morning guix

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<jmd>How do I kill a package?

<taylanub>jmd: kill? do you mean remove?

<jmd>Well I tried gc -d and got a message saying cannot delete because it is still alive.

<davexunit>jmd: I assume you've uninstalled the package. could it be that you have another installed package that depends on the package you want gc'd?

<jmd>Is there a way to do a sure gc ?

<jmd>Or to find out which package might be using it?

<bavier>jmd: there's the --references and --referrers options for gc

<jmd>Yes. The only referrers are /gnu/store/*profile

<jmd>But obviously I can't delete that.

<bavier>you can explicitely kill old profiles

<jmd>How?

<bavier>guix package -d <profile>

<jmd>I thought I tried that.

<civodul>rather: guix package --delete-generations=X

<civodul>"guix package --delete-generations" deletes all generations except the current one

<civodul>(hi all!)

<jmd>Is there not an easier way to reap a drv?

<civodul>reap a drv?

<civodul>there's "guix gc -d /gnu/store/foo" to explicitly remove foo from the store

<jmd>I want to garbage collect /gnu/store/m76g3dafx88zq05y93irzy4vpr6nsvph-glade-3.8.4

<civodul>(if possible)

<civodul>then yes, "guix gc -d /gnu/store/m76g3dafx88zq05y93irzy4vpr6nsvph-glade-3.8.4"

<jmd>It tells me that it is still alive. How do I kill it?

<civodul>if it's alive, it cannot be killed

<civodul>wonderful world

<civodul>:-)

<bavier>civodul: in jmd's case, the referrer is an old profile

<civodul>ah, ok

<jmd>Can I persauge it then to die of natural causes?

<civodul>then "guix package --delete-generations=theoldgen"

<civodul>:-)

<jmd>I'm not sure which generation it is. I have rather a lot :(

<bavier>what is "guix package" expecting for "theoldgen"

<bavier>a number?

<civodul>a number or a duration spec

<civodul>RTFM :-)

<bavier>touche

<civodul>heheh

<civodul>--delete-generations=1m removes stuff more than one month old

<civodul>pretty convenient

<jmd>Anyway the reason I am messing about, is that I notice that the glade package includes libpsppire.so

<jmd>It should not.

<bavier>speaking of glade, I'm trying to package 3.18.3 right now.

<jmd>ok. But don't remove the old one please!

<jmd>Older glades are required for use with gtk2

<bavier>jmd: no, I wasn't planning on that

<bavier>I noticed the gtk requirement

<bavier>I just have another package that needs gladeui-2.0

<jmd>Anyway, can anyone explain how /gnu/store/m76g3dafx88zq05y93irzy4vpr6nsvph-glade-3.8.4/lib/glade3/modules/libglade-psppire.so came into existance. This seems like a bug?

<bavier>jmd: I don't see that .so in my glade installation

<jmd>Maybe then it is just mine!

<bavier>would anyone have an objection to upgrading the gtk+ source version?

<jmd>So long as a gtk+-2 remains I don't care.

<civodul>bavier: fine with me, if it's a minor upgrade

<bavier>3.10 => 3.12

<civodul>i guess it should be ok

<bavier>some supporting libraries might also need upgrading

<bavier>such as glib, pango, atk, gobject-introspection

<civodul>upgrading GLib is never completely peaceful though

<civodul>and we're approaching a release, hopefully ;-)

<civodul>maybe you can give it a try and it it works well then we can go for it?