Hi,

Thank you for the patch.

I've remove Lint dependencies and kept only unit tests as acceptance
tests failed during local check.

See the diff:
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         (base32 "1sfnl1l6bgaqa8c2sk8k8f232bnq2drjg6rg7jvscmyz18yfih0b"))))
     (build-system pyproject-build-system)
     (arguments
-     (list #:phases #~(modify-phases %standard-phases
-                        ;; See https://github.com/VUnit/vunit/issues/1111
-                        (add-before 'check 'remove-failure
-                          (lambda _
-                            (delete-file "tests/lint/test_license.py"))))))
-    (native-inputs (list
-                    ;; tests
-                    nvc
-                    python-coverage
-                    python-mypy
-                    python-pycodestyle
-                    python-pygments
-                    python-pylint
-                    python-pytest
-                    ;;
-                    python-setuptools
-                    python-wheel))
-    (propagated-inputs (list python-colorama))
+     (list
+      #:test-flags
+      ;; Skip lint tests which require python-pycodestyle, python-pylint and
+      ;; python-mypy to reduce closoure size; some lint test fails, see
+      ;; <https://github.com/VUnit/vunit/issues/1111>.
+      ;;
+      ;; XXX: Acceptance tests take 10+ minutes to complete, hang on
+      ;; "test_external_run_scripts.py" and fail eventually, consider to
+      ;; improve them; ignore for now.
+      #~(list "tests/unit")))
+    (native-inputs
+     (list nvc
+           python-pytest
+           python-setuptools
+           python-setuptools-scm
+           python-wheel))
+    (propagated-inputs
+     (list python-colorama))
     (home-page "https://vunit.github.io")
     (synopsis "Unit testing framework for VHDL/SystemVerilog")
     (description
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Commit message was amended as well accordingly.
Passed lint and build.
Pushed to master as e6d951c7cfaa6e0f196b8d18b41e33ecfce109dc.

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Oleg