bug#54495: unexpected download after gc

[David Elsing]

Hello,

David Elsing <david.elsing@posteo.net> writes:

> Presently, it is inconvenient to globally run guix gc at all for me, as
> many (dependent) packages are deleted and substituted again when
> rebuilding several profiles built with grafts.

In the meantime, I learned about the '--gc-keep-outputs' and
'--gc-keep-derivations' options for guix-daemon [1], which together
prevent this issue. Of course, this also keeps build dependencies, but
that might be desirable anyway.

Best,
David

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix_002ddaemon.html