Documentation about uninstalling

I have installed Guix with the script, and now cannot find the part of the documentation, that explains how to uninstall it.

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Do you mean the guix-install.sh script? If so then what about the

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On +2024-04-11 02:08:35 +0200, Rostislav Svoboda wrote:

It says (a bit reformatted):

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? Should you eventually want to uninstall Guix, run the same ?

? script with the --uninstall flag: ?

? ?

? ./guix-install.sh --uninstall ?

? ?

? With --uninstall, the script irreversibly deletes all the ?

? Guix files, configuration, and services. ?

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My 2 cents' worth:

That sounds dangerous -- what about putting all the deletions

in a TAR_DICT/TAR_FILE_NAME.tgz as a default, with suitable

default alternative commands for various capitalized names

in a (bash) select menu -- which could also include

"Just do it, I know what --uninstall does")

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Regards,

Bengt Richter

Yeah a bit.

Eeeh? I don't understand what you mean.

Nevertheless, `./guix-install.sh --dry-run --uninstall` would be nice.

However the script is over 800 lines long. In bash! :-(

IMO before increasing script complexity with a new feature, we should

rewrite it to some reasonable language, preferably Guile Scheme. Or at

least Python.

Cheers Bost

On +2024-04-11 15:10:56 +0200, Rostislav Svoboda wrote:

Sorry, I should have explained.

I just wanted a simple way to save /exactly/ what uninstall would delete.

so it wouldn't be "irrevocable," in case the uninstall is too eager about its job ;)

A dry run of that size would be a scrolling blur, I think, and not much use unless

captured, and then it would take a lot of boring unreliable reading before you could

decide for sure that it was ok to do the uninstall.

Maybe guix pack could make a tarball of exactly what uninstall would delete, e.g.,

guix pack --uninstall-victim-files

with options of where to write it.

Well, guix pack is already scheme, right? Why couldn't it invoke uninstall after

safely having completed packing the uninstall-victim-files ?

WDYT? Simon? Ludo? Anyone? :)

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Regards,

Bengt Richter

Hi,

I mark this bug as done since the documentation already contains how to

uninstall.

On sam., 13 avril 2024 at 08:25, Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> wrote:

Well, it would be easy to write a Bash function wrapping ’rm’ and

displaying the files instead of removing them.

Who wants to give a try? ;-)

The maintenance burden Bash vs Python is an opinion. :-)

Well, a rewrite in Scheme/Guile would require to have Guile already

installed to run such script. And that’s not an assumption I would

do. ;-)

Well, it’s appears to me an heavy hammer. The best seems to have an

option displaying the files that need to be removed for uninstalling.

Let’s discuss that on guix-devel. Because it’s not related to a

bug. :-)

Cheers,

simon