Hi, As noticed in [1] and just seen here:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- describe guix 8e61e63 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: 8e61e6351510f5665d09c6debc0584b3ed218e73 $ guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- shell -m manifest.scm substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% 14.6 MB will be downloaded libxrender-0.9.10 22KiB 4.1MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% libxft-2.3.4 45KiB 933KiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% tk-8.6.12 1.3MiB 3.0MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% python-3.10.7 11.4MiB 2.7MiB/s 00:04 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% python-wrapper-3.10.7 332B 448KiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% meson-1.1.1 1.2MiB 3.1MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% 41.1 MB will be downloaded ghostscript-9.56.1-doc 6.5MiB 4.9MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% glib-2.72.3 2.4MiB 2.4MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% libjpeg-turbo-2.1.4 366KiB 2.5MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% desktop-file-utils-0.26 43KiB 4.6MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% glib-2.72.3-bin 111KiB 2.1MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% glib-2.72.3-static 1.3MiB 2.6MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% libtiff-4.4.0 380KiB 2.7MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% glib-2.72.3-debug 10.4MiB 2.5MiB/s 00:04 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% ghostscript-9.56.1 11.4MiB 3.1MiB/s 00:04 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% shared-mime-info-1.15 663KiB 3.0MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% gdk-pixbuf-2.42.8 515KiB 2.6MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% gdk-pixbuf-2.42.8-debug 421KiB 3.1MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% 14.9 MB will be downloaded chez-scheme-9.5.8-doc 2.1MiB 4.7MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% cups-minimal-2.4.7 4.9MiB 2.4MiB/s 00:02 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% graphite2-1.3.13 85KiB 8.3MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% libdatrie-0.2.13 41KiB 4.4MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% harfbuzz-5.3.1 1.0MiB 2.4MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% librsvg-2.56.4-doc 15KiB 6.4MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% libthai-0.1.29 164KiB 3.0MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% libxext-1.3.4 32KiB 3.6MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% lz4-1.9.3 147KiB 2.7MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% pixman-0.42.2 233KiB 3.7MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% chez-scheme-9.5.8 2.4MiB 2.8MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% cairo-1.16.0 600KiB 3.1MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% pango-1.50.10 368KiB 3.2MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% librsvg-2.56.4 1.9MiB 3.1MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% librsvg-2.56.4-debug 359KiB 3.4MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% 18.8 MB will be downloaded ghostscript-with-cups-9.56.1-doc 6.5MiB 5.2MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% ghostscript-with-cups-9.56.1 11.5MiB 2.7MiB/s 00:04 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% 22.8 MB will be downloaded dbus-1.14.0 273KiB 1.9MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% cairo-1.16.0 600KiB 4.6MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% ghostscript-with-cups-9.56.1 11.5MiB 2.6MiB/s 00:04 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% lcms-2.13.1 193KiB 3.1MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% libevent-2.1.12 330KiB 2.4MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% openjpeg-2.5.0 224KiB 2.5MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% avahi-0.8 348KiB 2.1MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% poppler-22.09.0 1.4MiB 2.6MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% qpdf-11.1.0 923KiB 2.6MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% cups-filters-1.28.15 870KiB 2.7MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% cups-2.4.7 5.2MiB 2.8MiB/s 00:02 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- where ’manifest.scm’ file reads: (specifications->manifest (list "guile" "racket" "chez-scheme" "make" "time" "coreutils" )) Well, something appears to me unexpected. The term ghostscript-with-cups appears only 3 times (NEWS does not count ;-)) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 5 candidates: ./gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm:297: (name "ghostscript-with-cups") ./gnu/packages/cups.scm:176: #$(this-package-input "ghostscript-with-cups") ./gnu/packages/cups.scm:202: #$(this-package-input "ghostscript-with-cups") ./NEWS:1370:ghc-zlib@0.6.1.1, ghc@8.0.2, ghostscript-with-cups@9.23, ./NEWS:2043:ghc-warp-tls, ghostscript-with-cups, git-remote-gcrypt, git-repo, --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Therefore, this double download appears to me unexpected. Cheers, simon 1: Re: Large amount of dependencies downloaded Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:50:56 +0100 id:87a5paww9b....@gmail.com https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2024-01 https://yhetil.org/guix/87a5paww9b....@gmail.com