On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 12:39:54PM +0200, Csepp wrote:
> 
> kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org> writes:
> 
> > Dear Guix,
> >
> > =guix shell qtbase= downloads the entire debug output of qtbase even
> > though I didn't write down qtbase:debug. That's hundreds of megabytes
> > of bandwith I didn't want to use. How do I avoid downloading the debug
> > output? Is this a bug?
> 
> I think it should be considered a bug.  guix shell always downloads
> every output of all the packages.

I assume it's related to grafts:

(ins)efraim@3900XT ~$ guix shell qtbase@6
321.1 MB will be downloaded
 qtbase-6.3.1-debug  287.7MiB                                                                                        3.7MiB/s 00:01 [                  ]   1.4%^C
(ins)efraim@3900XT ~$ guix shell --no-grafts qtbase@6
(ins)efraim@3900XT ~ [env]$
exit

Looks like it downloads all the outputs so it can perform grafts on all
the outputs, and only then does it put just qtbase in the environment.

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