bug#47748: closed (Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Packages which cant be find/removed by guix remove Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:46:19 +0000

Hi There,

I saw some packages installed by default with guix like wpa-supplicant and avahi..., But if i type 'guix remove av' and i press tab nothing will complete the word and if i type 'guix remove avahi' or 'guix remove wpa-supplicant' ... just give error message. (check the uploaded txt file)

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> Thu, 15 Apr 2021 23:41:33 -0400
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> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 02:11:09AM +0000, bo0od wrote:
> > My friend isnt this what im saying not friendly,bad usability,disaster...etc
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> > And i said to have maybe something like synapse which mean addressing
> > everything installed and user can just remove the packages by clicking on
> > them (or lets call it the GUI way of doing it) similar to the functionally
> > you showed:
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> The programs you are asking to remove are used internally by Guix.
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> You can't remove them with a simple command. You can't do that on other
> Linux distros either.
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> For example, on Debian, I have /usr/bin/gpg:
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> $ ls -l /usr/bin/gpg
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1046256 Aug 22  2019 /usr/bin/gpg
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> Then I uninstall it:
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> $ sudo apt-get remove gpg
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> $ ls -l /usr/bin/gpg
> ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/gpg': No such file or directory
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> But, apt-get uses gpg too, to check package signatures. It still has its
> own copy of gpg, so it still works. You can't remove it easily.
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> It's the same situation, and it's not a bug.
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