Hi Ludo, On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 11:02, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > zimoun skribis: > >> I have not checked the code, maybe I should start by that. ;-) Is it not >> possible to simply skip the deleting phase when the option ’-D’ is used? > > No; like I wrote, it would have the effect of not deleting anything: After giving a look at the code, yeah it is not so simple. :-) > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51427#1 > > Needs more thought… The logic is complicated, thus adding this guard… --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- if (options.maxFreed > 0) { /* Clean up the links directory. */ if (options.action == GCOptions::gcDeleteDead || options.action == GCOptions::gcDeleteSpecific) { printMsg(lvlError, format("deleting unused links...")); removeUnusedLinks(state); } } --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- …is probably dumb. From my understanding, it should bypass the phase ’removeUnusedLinks’ when using “guix gc -D”. Well, I have not tested it. Cheers, simon