raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:

> Hey all!
>
> So, I recently gave a go to packaging EDK2 on my channel, and found out
> that it requires several submodules, including OpenSSL, which take up
> quite a bit of space and take way longer to download than necessary.
>
> Since I couldn't find a way to shallow-init the submodules, I added
> them as separate origins and copied / symlinked them after the unpack
> phase.

That sounds like a decent workaround.  Even better to symlink
(package-source openssl) to use the OpenSSL sources from Guix.

The ideal solution would of course be to provide OpenSSL as a regular
input and make the build system use it, but that's not always feasible.