Subject: Re: [bug#52805] [PATCH] substitute: Add a ‘--clear-cache’ option.

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:49:28 +0100

Hi Tobias,

On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 22:20, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> Maybe "guix gc" would be a better place?
>
> No, I'd rather not add yet another option to ‘guix gc’ that has
> nothing to do with GC.

Why?  Well, garbage collection is about automatic memory management and
cache is about efficiency of memory usage.  Therefore, it is appears to
me relevant to have an option “guix gc --clear-cache” to force the clean
of various caches.

Cheers,
simon