Re: Plan for 0.9.0

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Alex Vong <address@hidden> writes:

> Regarding gc, I remember I accidentally ran "guix gc" and removed all
> the build dependencies like bash, glibc... Then, I realized the proper
> way to run gc is to run "guix gc -d <DIRECTORY>". Perhaps we should
> change the command for garbage collecting everything from "guix gc" to
> "guix gc -a" and "guix gc --all". Does this sound reasonable?

I think this is not a bad idea.  It would also make “guix gc” behave
more like the other sub-commands (i.e. require an argument).

It’s not a command that’s used so often that the additional argument
would hurt much, in my opinion.

~~ Ricardo