Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> For packages that use ‘gnu-build-system’, the prerequisites are a
> superset of (@ (gnu packages base) final-inputs), which includes GCC,
> Coreutils, libc, etc.  So you would want to keep those, I guess, right?

Yes, that was the suggestion.

> But as you note, all this will be much less of a concern when we can
> download pre-built binaries.  Something to get in for 0.2, I guess.  :-)

I agree; it is maybe too presumptuos to decide what the user would like to 
keep.

Andreas