Guix creates 1M+ symlinks for papirus-icon-theme

After installing papirus-icon-theme my profile build became much slower, and after a few more generations I ran out of Inodes. After probing around with du I found that each profile had nearly 1.5M Inodes.

From 'du --inodes -d 1 /gnu/store | sort -n'

427406 /gnu/store/7038q3mds728lps7vrmn5ii4hzym4bs3-profile

1427426 /gnu/store/bkj5cqbq8r1kbh34w06548c6zhkf7f37-profile

1427440 /gnu/store/wjw3d19nyi838adf1gbx34yg00gws4ym-profile

1427449 /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile

10900648 /gnu/store

And then further in the culprit:

19 /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/hicolor

279659 /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/ePapirus-Dark

279663 /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/ePapirus

288689 /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus

288689 /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus-Dark

288689 /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light

1425409 /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/

Here is my guix describe

Generation 2 Feb 04 2023 19:09:15 (current)

guix f57e20d

repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

branch: master commit: f57e20d7289911a3691f089603c47cfdb828ea44

Hi,

SkeletonAdventure <SkeletonAdventure@proton.me> writes:

This was fixed a bit later in 77aff2b5d2 by Tobias, by using hard links

instead of symlinks.

You'll have the fix after you 'guix pull' and 'guix upgrade'.

Closing.

--

Thanks,

Maxim

unarchive 61379

This issue still persists. Here is my describe

Generation 58 Mar 20 2023 23:24:05 (current)

guix b4fb941

repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

branch: master commit: b4fb941957ea68a5e708525a8bebeacdc3d70959

And Papirus has 112035 inodes

112035 /gnu/store/ancyil1arc8c9bkf3izp66a7n9wyq3a9-papirus-icon-theme-20230104

With nearly 1.5 million in each profile. Just uninstalling and reinstalling it twice moved my inode usage from 49% to 73%

279659 /gnu/store/a3lfb69pzllcbahpkh8vaxlg7czhr9k8-profile/share/icons/ePapirus-Dark

279663 /gnu/store/a3lfb69pzllcbahpkh8vaxlg7czhr9k8-profile/share/icons/ePapirus

288689 /gnu/store/a3lfb69pzllcbahpkh8vaxlg7czhr9k8-profile/share/icons/Papirus

288689 /gnu/store/a3lfb69pzllcbahpkh8vaxlg7czhr9k8-profile/share/icons/Papirus-Dark288689 /gnu/store/a3lfb69pzllcbahpkh8vaxlg7czhr9k8-profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light

It is worth noting that Papirus is not alone in making too many inodes per profile, it is just the most noticeable given how huge it is. Breeze will saturate one's inodes after a about 200 generations.

27261 /gnu/store/v71lm9qcpvl2bayclc1j83hfbm91r2ff-profile/share/icons/breeze-dark

29738 /gnu/store/v71lm9qcpvl2bayclc1j83hfbm91r2ff-profile/share/icons/breeze

And maybe others.