GNU bug report logs - #77487
1.4 million extraneous symlinks under .guix-home/profile/share/icons

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Timo Wilken" <guix <at> twilken.net>

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 12:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 1.4

Done: 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> envs.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 77487-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> envs.net>
To: Rutherther <rutherther <at> ditigal.xyz>
Cc: 77487-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 77251-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#77251] [PATCH] guix: gtk-icon-themes: produce only cache
 in output
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:40:22 +0800

Rutherther <rutherther <at> ditigal.xyz> writes:

> This patch changes the behavior of gtk-icon-themes to produce only the
> icon-theme.cache cache files, instead of producing the whole union.
> The reason for this is that by producing the whole union, the icons are put to
> the profile twice. This throws off the union build of the profile and symlinks
> all the individual files instead of symlinking folders. This means
> unnecessarily high numbers of symlinks are produced.
>
> * guix/profiles.scm (gtk-icon-themes): Produce only caches

Pushed to master as commit 32575294, with simplified commit message.

Thank you!
This bug report was last modified 21 days ago.

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