Subject: Re: bug#77487: 1.4 million extraneous symlinks under .guix-home/profile/share/icons

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 13:27:35 -0400

On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 02:05:40PM +0200, Timo Wilken wrote:
> 
> In my ~/.guix-home/profile/share/icons/, I have a total of 1.4 million
> symlinks:
> 
> $ find ~/.guix-home/profile/share/icons/ -type l -printf x | wc -c
> 1425657

Oof.

I have nothing like that with Guix itself (compared to Guix Home), but
it's still a lot:

$ find ~/.guix-profile/share/icons/ -type l -printf x | wc -c 
77714