Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Can you share the patch?  (guix utils) should not trigger a world
>> rebuild AFAIK.
>
> Yes, that's what I've been told, but I tried both (guix build utils) and
> (guix utils), they both resulted in a world rebuilt.  Unless I did
> something wrong...
>
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36000

That patch is for (guix build utils), which is included from
gnu-build-system and necessarily rebuilds the world.  :-)

(guix utils) is not meant to be used in build-side code (i.e. it's only
for the higher Guix APIs) and so should be free to change at any time.