While testing a build of Audacity, I noticed this confusing behavior: ------ $ ./pre-inst-env guix build --no-grafts audacity ;;; note: source file /home/leo/work/guix/gnu/packages/audio.scm ;;; newer than compiled /home/leo/work/guix/gnu/packages/audio.go ;;; note: source file /home/leo/work/guix/gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm ;;; newer than compiled /home/leo/work/guix/gnu/packages/libreoffice.go substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://privatemirror.example.com'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://berlin.guixsd.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% The following derivation will be built: /gnu/store/75rknckix6p6vslgf0fy1z8c6six0svg-audacity-2.2.2.drv 32.4 MB will be downloaded: /gnu/store/xab948cliy5b9qqkkh3f3v2ffjgg5jgl-wxwidgets-3.0.4 /gnu/store/rgmb5s24bmwb9lfd6y6vyqbcf872ksq5-suil-0.10.0 /gnu/store/df5w7bx13yijdrrccf0jh8733zsr9gff-qtbase-5.11.1 substituting /gnu/store/xab948cliy5b9qqkkh3f3v2ffjgg5jgl-wxwidgets-3.0.4... downloading from https://privatemirror.example.com/guix/nar/gzip/xab948cliy5b9qqkkh3f3v2ffjgg5jgl-wxwidgets-3.0.4... wxwidgets-3.0.4 10.3MiB 1.2MiB/s 00:09 [##################] 100.0% gets-3.0.4 10.3MiB 1.0MiB/s wxwidgets-3.0.4 10.3MiB 1.1MiB/s wxwidgets-3.0.4 10.3MiB 1.1MiB/s wxwidgets-3substituting /gnu/store/37ldf3jfbq8qv0i0bpfrbbjd4ska605l-mariadb-10.1.35... 1.1MiB/s wxwidgets-3.0.4 10.3MiB 1.1MiB/s wxwidgets-3.0.4 downloading from https://privatemirror.example.com/guix/nar/gzip/37ldf3jfbq8qv0i0bpfrbbjd4ska605l-mariadb-10.1.35...widgets-3.0.4 10.3MiB 1.1MiB/s wxwidgets-3.0.4 10.3Mi mariadb-10.1.35 60.6MiB 973KiB/s 00:20 [##### ] 31.7%^C ------ It needed to download mariadb, but this wasn't included in the report of what would be done. For later reference, this happened on commit b0f43001195c69f730b49b0bf9de516edd53baed. It's on Debian, with the guix-daemon from f9051e387056fb1c29d8e67b76754168b304449d (0.15.0-4.7fed935).