Re: New ‘guix graph’ command

[Ludovic Courtès]

"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> 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.

Ludo’.