Broken symbolic links in /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/ are not garbage collected

[dschrempf]

Describe the bug
Broken symbolic links in /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/ are not garbage collected. However, broken symbolic links in /nix/var/nix/gcroots/auto/ are garbage collected. This behavior is not consistent, but it might be intentional. Is that so? If so, why? If not, can we also collect broken symbolic links in the per-user directory?

Steps To Reproduce
The problem arose due to excessive usage of nix-direnv, which creates symbolic links in the per-user category. When nix-direnv profiles are changed, new links are created, and the old ones become broken.

Expected behavior
I do not know what the expected behavior is in general. In my use case, I expected the garbage collector to also collect the symbolic links in the per-user directory.

nix-env --version output
nix-env (Nix) 2.11.0

Additional context
See a corresponding issue at nix-direnv: nix-community/nix-direnv#242.

[Congee]

And this command find -L /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/$USER -maxdepth 1 -type l -delete to delete them for those who have OCD