On Tue, Jul 30, 2024, at 10:43 AM, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 10:31:35AM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> Why does it need to download all of this stuff that I know it doesn't >> actually need (given that "guix gc" deleted it)? In particular it >> appears to be downloading build dependencies for everything whether >> or not it is going to use a substitute for them, and also packages >> that I have intentionally excluded from the system configuration. > > Very generally, these programs are considered necessary to build the > system generation itself. > > I'm not claiming that each of these programs is executed in the > process of building the generation, but they are considered by Guix > to be required, either directly or transitively, in order to perform > this work.
Is there a good way to investigate _why_ each of these packages is considered necessary to build the system generation, and, equally importantly, why they are _not_ considered necessary by "guix gc"? zw
