bug#61379: closed (Guix creates 1M+ symlinks for papirus-icon-theme)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Guix creates 1M+ symlinks for papirus-icon-theme Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 01:07:16 +0000

After installing papirus-icon-theme my profile build became much slower, and after a few more generations I ran out of Inodes. After probing around with du I found that each profile had nearly 1.5M Inodes.

From 'du --inodes -d 1 /gnu/store | sort -n'

427406    /gnu/store/7038q3mds728lps7vrmn5ii4hzym4bs3-profile
1427426    /gnu/store/bkj5cqbq8r1kbh34w06548c6zhkf7f37-profile
1427440    /gnu/store/wjw3d19nyi838adf1gbx34yg00gws4ym-profile
1427449    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile
10900648    /gnu/store

And then further in the culprit:

19    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/hicolor
279659    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/ePapirus-Dark
279663    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/ePapirus
288689    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus
288689    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus-Dark
288689    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light
1425409    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/

Here is my guix describe

Generation 2 Feb 04 2023 19:09:15 (current)

  guix f57e20d

    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

    branch: master

    commit: f57e20d7289911a3691f089603c47cfdb828ea44

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> Re: bug#61379: Guix creates 1M+ symlinks for papirus-icon-theme
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> Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:21:42 -0500
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> SkeletonAdventure <SkeletonAdventure@proton.me> writes:
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> > After installing papirus-icon-theme my profile build became much
> > slower, and after a few more generations I ran out of Inodes. After
> > probing around with du I found that each profile had nearly 1.5M
> > Inodes.
> >
> > From 'du --inodes -d 1 /gnu/store | sort -n'
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> > 427406    /gnu/store/7038q3mds728lps7vrmn5ii4hzym4bs3-profile
> > 1427426    /gnu/store/bkj5cqbq8r1kbh34w06548c6zhkf7f37-profile
> > 1427440    /gnu/store/wjw3d19nyi838adf1gbx34yg00gws4ym-profile
> > 1427449    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile
> > 10900648    /gnu/store
> >
> > And then further in the culprit:
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> > 19    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/hicolor
> > 279659    
> > /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/ePapirus-Dark
> > 279663    
> > /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/ePapirus
> > 288689    
> > /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus
> > 288689    
> > /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus-Dark
> > 288689    
> > /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/Papirus-Light
> > 1425409    /gnu/store/nxks5r9xg62av8c9harkcyk5x9ig45ka-profile/share/icons/
> >
> > Here is my guix describe
> >
> > Generation 2 Feb 04 2023 19:09:15 (current)
> > guix f57e20d
> > repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> > branch: master commit: f57e20d7289911a3691f089603c47cfdb828ea44
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> This was fixed a bit later in 77aff2b5d2 by Tobias, by using hard links
> instead of symlinks.
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> You'll have the fix after you 'guix pull' and 'guix upgrade'.
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> Closing.
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> -- 
> Thanks,
> Maxim
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