Does it look correct to you? Do you know if it's possible to delete the bundled copies of libxml and libunistring entirely? I got build errors with this source snippet: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (modules '((guix build utils))) (snippet '(begin ;; Delete the bundled copies of libxml2 and libunistring. (for-each delete-file-recursively (find-files "." "^(unistr|libxml)$" #:directories? #t)) #t)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Anyway the new gettext does seem to work fine. It has grown from 78.9 to 97.9 MiB (this is on the 'core-updates' branch): $ ./pre-inst-env guix size gettext-minimal store item total self /gnu/store/ycnva13hfplvdc0wp9ckfa909qlhyra6-glibc-2.28 37.5 36.0 36.7% /gnu/store/67z1imya4k73rv8iys59lnslxz3k78z4-gcc-7.4.0-lib 70.2 32.6 33.3% /gnu/store/0nv03as1mvmw4ii72nirp14857fd4x0w-gettext-minimal-0.20.1 97.9 9.4 9.6% /gnu/store/v0gk70nylmzwadwsavvdwxm59i1c77w8-libxml2-2.9.9 80.3 7.9 8.1% /gnu/store/094gw83fgil2scrwzbsgw6dxb7zg3g6m-ncurses-6.1-20190609 76.0 5.9 6.0% /gnu/store/2xx5pv1zb7v0cw42p25hdgc9yjgpazdn-libunistring-0.9.10 72.5 2.4 2.4% /gnu/store/ld746xji0id9gcflm1v645d71y55pnbw-bash-static-5.0.7 1.6 1.6 1.6% /gnu/store/argczg2hxrzh5m11dbcz0gghg1cpgzhd-bash-minimal-5.0.7 38.6 1.0 1.1% /gnu/store/3pm8plhp2zrybnj59vdzq0r0vjvvnim8-xz-5.2.4 72.1 0.9 0.9% /gnu/store/nl92qmy1b61biqzm0cjg2hh9f47qf3w1-zlib-1.2.11 70.4 0.2 0.2% total: 97.9 MiB