Large amount of dependencies downloaded

[TJ]

Hi,

I'm finding it hard to install any packages at all when I'm not on a
high-speed connection.

I have used the gc to clear out old packages and revisions to save
space, however, if I want to install a new package, it starts pulling
guile, python, etc.

I've posted the install log for xdot at the end of the message.
Ghostscript was downloaded multiple times, ghostscript-with-cups-9.56.1
was downloaded twice, and gnome-backgrounds is somehow a dependency.

I believe over 300MB of packages were downloaded using 1-2GB of space.
This is on a laptop which already has many graphical dependencies.
Currently, 145 packages take 43GB of space over 2 main revisions.

On a debian based server system which has no graphics installed:

$ apt-get install xdot
3 upgraded, 89 newly installed, 0 to remove and 246 not upgraded.
Need to get 17.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 82.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Is there a way to separate runtime dependencies vs build-time
dependencies when installing a package? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

TJ



$ guix install xdot
14.4 MB will be downloaded
 guile-3.0.9-debug  6.8MiB
 The following package will be installed:
   xdot 1.1

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
51.7 MB will be downloaded
gnutls-3.8.1-doc  1.1MiB
glibc-2.35  8.5MiB
gnutls-3.8.1  1.6MiB
glibc-2.35-static  1.4MiB
gnutls-3.8.1-debug  3.5MiB
glibc-2.35-debug  19.3MiB
libxrender-0.9.10  22KiB
mkfontscale-1.2.2  21KiB
libxft-2.3.4  45KiB
mkfontdir-1.0.7  4KiB
tk-8.6.12  1.3MiB
python-3.10.7  11.4MiB
python-wrapper-3.10.7  332B
meson-1.1.1  1.2MiB

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
46.4 MB will be downloaded
ghostscript-9.56.1-doc  6.5MiB
glib-2.72.3  2.4MiB
libjpeg-turbo-2.1.4  366KiB
desktop-file-utils-0.26  43KiB
glib-2.72.3-bin  102KiB
glib-2.72.3-static  1.3MiB
libtiff-4.4.0  404KiB
glib-2.72.3-debug  10.4MiB
ghostscript-9.56.1  11.4MiB
openssl-1.1.1u-doc  2.2MiB
openssl-1.1.1u-static  1.3MiB
shared-mime-info-1.15  663KiB
gdk-pixbuf-2.42.8  454KiB
gdk-pixbuf-2.42.8-debug  421KiB

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
23.7 MB will be downloaded
ghostscript-with-cups-9.56.1-doc  6.5MiB
ghostscript-with-cups-9.56.1  11.5MiB
graphite2-1.3.13  85KiB
libdatrie-0.2.13  38KiB
harfbuzz-5.3.1  962KiB
librsvg-2.56.4-doc  15KiB
libthai-0.1.29  164KiB
libxext-1.3.4  32KiB
pixman-0.42.2  233KiB
cairo-1.16.0  600KiB
pango-1.50.10  368KiB
librsvg-2.56.4  1.9MiB
librsvg-2.56.4-debug  359KiB

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
22.8 MB will be downloaded
dbus-1.14.0  273KiB
cairo-1.16.0  600KiB
ghostscript-with-cups-9.56.1  11.5MiB
lcms-2.13.1  193KiB
libevent-2.1.12  304KiB
openjpeg-2.5.0  224KiB
avahi-0.8  348KiB
poppler-22.09.0  1.4MiB
qpdf-11.1.0  923KiB
cups-filters-1.28.15  870KiB
cups-2.4.6  5.2MiB

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
147.0 MB will be downloaded
gtk%2B-2.24.33-doc  8KiB
cups-2.4.2  5.2MiB
eudev-3.2.11  2.0MiB
gd-2.3.2  123KiB
elogind-252.9  1.1MiB
gnome-backgrounds-42.0  48.9MiB
gobject-introspection-1.72.0  1.2MiB
gsettings-desktop-schemas-42.0  599KiB
gts-0.7.6  273KiB
gusb-minimal-0.3.5  41KiB
graphviz-7.0.1  1.2MiB
iso-codes-4.5.0  3.1MiB
libcloudproviders-minimal-0.3.1  28KiB
libdrm-2.4.117  252KiB
libgudev-236  22KiB
libxcomposite-0.4.5  10KiB
libxfixes-6.0.0  11KiB
libxi-1.7.10  33KiB
libxcursor-1.2.1  28KiB
libxdamage-1.1.5  6KiB
libxinerama-1.1.4  8KiB
libxrandr-1.5.2  25KiB
libxtst-1.2.3  26KiB
libxxf86vm-1.1.4  13KiB
at-spi2-core-2.45.90  488KiB
llvm-for-mesa-15.0.7  23.2MiB
gtk%2B-2.24.33  6.2MiB
polkit-121  152KiB
gtk%2B-2.24.33-bin  86KiB
colord-minimal-1.4.6  617KiB
gtk%2B-2.24.33-debug  8.7MiB
python-pycairo-1.21.0  101KiB
python-pygobject-3.42.2  177KiB
wayland-1.22.0  167KiB
xkeyboard-config-2.38  839KiB
mesa-23.2.1  35.0MiB
libxkbcommon-1.6.0  403KiB
libepoxy-1.5.10  287KiB
gtk%2B-3.24.37  7.1MiB
gtk%2B-3.24.37-bin  766KiB
xdot-1.1  51KiB

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