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  1. Feb 2025
    1. New GC roots can be added with guix build --root, for example (see Invoking guix build). The guix gc --list-roots command lists them.

      how to add and and to list the Guix gc roots

    2. The garbage collector has a set of known roots: any file under /gnu/store reachable from a root is considered live and cannot be deleted; any other file is considered dead and may be deleted.

      This is how to prevent Guix gc from removing the profiles.