uninstaller

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  • Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
  • David Redick
  • Ludovic Courtès
  • zimoun
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David Redick wrote on 15 Jul 2020 21:23
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
CAMsr84k18CkA5Upt9uDnBVUtFROP0Dof5J4s-oR+YjRHvJ4zZw@mail.gmail.com
So I installed guix as a guest on my debian laptop as an evaluation.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find an uninstaller so I modified the
guix-install.sh to support a --uninstall parameter that would remove
guix from the host system.

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David A. Redick
Attachment: updated-sh-and-patch.tar.xz
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zimoun wrote on 16 Jul 2020 12:39
868sfjzquz.fsf@gmail.com
Dear,

Thank you for your patch.

It seems weird to me to type "bash guix-install.sh --uninstall" so maybe
the uninstall part could to its own file.

BTW, who would like uninstall Guix once they discovers its Joy? :-)


All the best,
simon
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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote on 30 Mar 2022 13:04
Re: uninstaller
(address . 42379@debbugs.gnu.org)
20220330130416.7cf4de7d@primarylaptop.localdomain
Hi,

There are valid use cases for uninstalling Guix:
- On a Trisquel VM I use Guix to add matterbridge to it with guix pack.
Once the tarball is done with guix pack I remove Guix and install the
pack to limit the attack surface. To do the updates I install Guix
back and re-do a tarball.
- On some machines I sometimes need Guix but when I don't need it
anymore I tend to remove it not to have to maintain too much software
(having to run guix pull when you don't use Guix is probably not a
good idea).

So I use a standalone script I did for that, but the patch in this bug
report is more complete than my script, so I should probably find the
time to pick up that work.

Denis.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 5 Apr 18:29 +0200
Re: bug#42379: uninstaller
(name . David Redick)(address . david.a.redick@gmail.com)(address . 42379-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
87le5rpyc6.fsf@gnu.org
Hi,

David Redick <david.a.redick@gmail.com> skribis:

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> So I installed guix as a guest on my debian laptop as an evaluation.
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> Unfortunately, I couldn't find an uninstaller so I modified the
> guix-install.sh to support a --uninstall parameter that would remove
> guix from the host system.

Thanks for the patch. It’s an oft-requested feature and it seems we’d
rather have it than leaving users on their own.

I rebased and applied your patch, documented it in the manual, and
committed as dd476cfb76511063e19ac3e70afd1d5a391b47f7. Apologies for
not adjusting the author to credit you, my bad!

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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