On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:36 -0400, Tom Hiller wrote:
> I am using it with pack

I assume as "guix pack cmake other-package ..."?
This seems a valid use case, although there is a
case to be made to only make the ‘fully capable’
packages visible.

In any case, you can work around this with

  guix pack -e '(@ (gnu packages cmake) cmake-minimal)' other-package ...

This works for any exported package.

Greetings,
Maxime.