Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Also in the case of Next there is something fishy: direct dependencies
> include none of the Common Lisp libraries, and none of them _depends
> indirectly_ on the those libraries, so how come they show up in the
> listing of indirect dependencies?

Hmm, reading myself again I realize this was poorly phrased.  Allow me
to explain that again.  In

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
./pre-inst-env guix gc --references /gnu/store/sypf1iq80b2i192jp0mxm43bk6dj6fcc-next-1.3.1
/gnu/store/4sqps8dczv3g7rwbdibfz6rf5jlk7w90-gcc-5.5.0-lib
/gnu/store/a0rffysgyr66q5fjgm1iibjm4ma1jbk3-next-1.3.1-lib
/gnu/store/h2j8gy8d2yrmrklavrik1y864zg7qwqd-sbcl-1.5.6
/gnu/store/h90vnqw0nwd0hhm1l5dgxsdrigddfmq4-glibc-2.28
/gnu/store/nq4lsyipmfb0q7g26ra45rwwqrh3x8zw-zlib-1.2.11
/gnu/store/sypf1iq80b2i192jp0mxm43bk6dj6fcc-next-1.3.1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

we see that next-1.3.1-lib is a dependency, which holds references to
all the other libraries.

So my question is, why would `guix gc` collect sqlite, libfixposix,
etc. if they are indirect dependencies?

In other words?  Wasn't I right to check for dependencies with `guix
size` (or `guix gc -R`) instead of `guix gc --references`?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/