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<listitem><para><command>bsdiff</command> updated
4.3.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>TODO: open files etc. are now used as roots of the
garbage collector (r5796).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>TODO: --attr / -A flags in
nix-env/nix-instantiate/nix-build. Also nix-env -qa
--attr.</para></listitem>
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the build result to be named something other than
<literal>result</literal>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>nix-store --gc</literal>
(a.k.a. <command>nix-collect-garbage</command>) prints out the
number of bytes freed on standard output. <literal>nix-store --gc
--print-dead</literal> shows how many bytes would be freed by an
actual garbage collection.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Garbage collector improvements:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Open files (such as running programs) are now
used as roots of the garbage collector. This prevents programs
that have been uninstalled from being garbage collected while
they are still running. The script that detects these
additional runtime roots
(<filename>find-runtime-roots.pl</filename>) is inherently
system-specific, but it should work on Linux and on all
platforms that have the <command>lsof</command>
utility.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>nix-store --gc</literal>
(a.k.a. <command>nix-collect-garbage</command>) prints out the
number of bytes freed on standard output. <literal>nix-store
--gc --print-dead</literal> shows how many bytes would be freed
by an actual garbage collection.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>nix-collect-garbage -d</literal>
removes all old generations of <emphasis>all</emphasis> profiles
before calling the actual garbage collector (<literal>nix-store
--gc</literal>). This is an easy way to get rid of all old
packages in the Nix store.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New command <literal>nix-store --delete</literal> to
delete specific paths from the Nix store. It won’t delete reachable