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Impossible to remove all offload machines

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From: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
To: Ian Eure <ian <at> retrospec.tv>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel <at> gnu.org>, 72686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#72686: Impossible to remove all offload machines
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:06:13 +0200

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Hello,

Ian Eure <ian <at> retrospec.tv> writes:

> Disregard this, I continued thinking after sending the email (as one does) and
> realized that any managed file will be a link into the store -- so if the system
> is reconfigured with no build-machines or channels *and* the corresponding file
> is a store link, it should be removed; otherwise, it should remain untouched. I
> can work with this.

Will this correctly handle cases where user is managing the file using
for example extra-special-file?

I wonder whether fat-warning approach would not be better.

Tomas

-- 
There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.

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