# What are the active manifests?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** development\
**Created:** [March 29, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497 "2019-03-29T11:01:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![HenrikM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrikm/32/17975_2.png) [@HenrikM](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HenrikM)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497/1 "2019-03-29T11:01:11Z")

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When I ran the `Pkg gc` it listed active manifests. What are the active manifests? Why are these active and not others? I had not activated any project, and I have no environment variables pointing to these paths.

```julia
(v1.1) pkg> gc
    Active manifests:
        `/l/user1/julia/environments/v1.1/Manifest.toml`
        `/l/user1/Dropbox/tests/julia/Kernel/Manifest.toml`
        `/l/user1/julia/environments/v1.0/Manifest.toml`
        `/l/user1/julia/packages/PackageCompiler/oT98U/packages/LanguageServer/Manifest.toml`
        `/l/user1/Project/Manifest.toml`
        ...

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497/2 "2019-03-29T11:06:39Z")

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Maybe “active manifest” is a bad name. They are the path to all manifests you have used which are still on the filesystem.

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**Author:** ![HenrikM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrikm/32/17975_2.png) [@HenrikM](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HenrikM)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 11:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497/3 "2019-03-29T11:42:00Z")

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Ok, thanks! So somewhere in the bowels of my Julia installation there is a list of projects that I have activated with `Pkg activate`?

After some digging, I think it is  
`$JULIA_DEPOT_PATH/logs/manifest_usage.toml`  
Is this correct?

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497/4 "2019-03-29T11:58:14Z")

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> [@HenrikM](#):
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> Is this correct?

Yep.

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**Author:** ![kevbonham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kevbonham/32/216165_2.png) [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497/5 "2019-03-30T10:08:17Z")

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It would be really great to expose this somewhere/somehow. Looking at that I found projects I’d totally forgotten about 😆

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497/6 "2019-03-30T15:40:24Z")

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Does having it listed in a file not qualify as “exposing it”?

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497/7 "2019-03-30T15:55:02Z")

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See [Introduce `env` command to manage environments · Issue #621 · JuliaLang/Pkg.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/621)

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**Author:** ![kevbonham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kevbonham/32/216165_2.png) [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-active-manifests/22497/8 "2019-03-30T17:01:40Z")

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Well, I know you’re not trying to keep it a secret 😉.

> [@fredrikekre](#):
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> See [Introduce `env` command to manage environments · Issue #621 · JuliaLang/Pkg.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/621)

Yeah, that would be great 😁