Disk ran out, how to clean store for some specified projects?

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If you register them as roots, say via: nix develop --profile ./profile, yes.

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How are you keeping devshell dependencies live in store?

I have the automatic nix store gc service running, nightly. Every day when I cd somewhere with dotenv and flake devshells, a bunch of stuff gets re-downloaded, because it’s not linked via any of the profiles gc sees. I could think of a few hacks: run the gc service much less often, or not at all add the packages to a profile, just because add something to the direnv hook that somehow adds all the packages to a dummy profile, and then add another layer of gc logic to that Are there any bette…