[Nix-dev] Clear all

[Daniel Hlynskyi]

I've heard (in Nix 1.6 release features list) that

* nix-env -i has a new flag --remove-all (-r) to remove all previous
packages from the profile.

Though, I don't know if it works with your


2013/9/21 Stewart Mackenzie <setori88 at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> I've only recently found out about nix-shell or what was nix-env
> --run-env. Though i've completely polluted my user space by installing
> everything with nix-env -i <pkgs> . I'd like to clear it up and start from
> scratch properly.
>
> How do i do that? Delete the profiles directory?
>
> Secondly, what typically should be installed with nix-env? I would imagine
> its the programs one would want access to in the standard terminal
> environment. Things like firefox etc. Correct?
>
> Kind regards
> Stewart
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