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| author | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2018-04-12T10·12-0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-12T10·12-0400 |
| commit | 3d748d3323abe1d5f2787b1f9a64eb453a918d0e (patch) | |
| tree | 7eb49aa898dbec9f21d052da4da08003cd06c1e1 /doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml | |
| parent | dc0a542c9f8c839b8437b54fcf1c4b47b0cfba10 (diff) | |
| parent | 2ef8f0608caa27d1a92d827f54b54155c89092a8 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #2071 from sseefried-forked/clarify-glossary-and-garbage-collection
Add to glossary and clarify garbage collection
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml b/doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml index 03b8e4c976c1..a1b0ef22a11e 100644 --- a/doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml +++ b/doc/manual/packages/garbage-collection.xml @@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ garbage collector as follows: <screen> $ nix-store --gc</screen> +The behaviour of the gargage collector is affected by the <literal>keep- +derivations</literal> (default: true) and <literal>keep-outputs</literal> +(default: false) options in the Nix configuration file. The defaults will ensure +that all derivations that are not build-time dependencies of garbage collector roots +will be collected but that all output paths that are not runtime dependencies +will be collected. (This is usually what you want, but while you are developing +it may make sense to keep outputs to ensure that rebuild times are quick.) + If you are feeling uncertain, you can also first view what files would be deleted: |