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feat: gc for home-manager - https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8508

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@ -86,8 +86,12 @@ To clean up historical versions and free up storage space, use the following com
# Delete all historical versions older than 7 days # Delete all historical versions older than 7 days
sudo nix profile wipe-history --older-than 7d --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system sudo nix profile wipe-history --older-than 7d --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system
# Run garbage collection after wiping history # Wiping history won't garbage collect the unused packages, you need to run the gc command manually as root:
sudo nix-collect-garbage --delete-old sudo nix-collect-garbage --delete-old
# Due to the following issue, you need to run the gc command as per user to delete home-manager's historical data:
# https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8508
nix-collect-garbage --delete-old
``` ```
## Why some packages are installed? ## Why some packages are installed?

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@ -78,8 +78,12 @@ nix profile history --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system
```shell ```shell
# 清理 7 天之前的所有历史版本 # 清理 7 天之前的所有历史版本
sudo nix profile wipe-history --older-than 7d --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system sudo nix profile wipe-history --older-than 7d --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/system
# 清理历史版本并不会删除数据，还需要手动 gc 下 # 清理历史版本并不会删除数据，还需要以 root 身份运行 gc 命令来删除所有未使用的包
sudo nix-collect-garbage --delete-old sudo nix-collect-garbage --delete-old
# 因为如下 issue，还需要以当前用户身份运行 gc 命令来删除 home-manager 的历史版本和包
# https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8508
nix-collect-garbage --delete-old
``` ```
## 查询为什么某个包被安装了 {#why-some-packages-are-installed} ## 查询为什么某个包被安装了 {#why-some-packages-are-installed}