Hi, On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 at 16:25, "\( via Guix-patches" via wrote: > Hmm. Perhaps we could replace this with a whole new > > -D, --list-dependent-packages > > flag? Vagrant proposed [1] to add a flag as --machine-readable, quoting: I vaguely recall discussing on irc not long ago the desire for "guix refresh --list-dependent --machine-readable" (e.g. drop the "Building the following X packages would ensure 10 dependent packages are rebuilt:") or something similar. Would save having to pipe to cut, awk, sed, perl, etc. ... Well, there is also the annoyance that hidden packages are shown so it becomes cumbersome for piping with “guix build” for instance. Maybe, this patch could be tweaked to have something like, guix refresh --list-build-dependent PACKAGE returning a list accepted by “guix build”. 1: Cheers, simon