Different words similar meaning? --references is NixOS speak for direct package dependencies. --requisites list all. These work with the nix-store command.

  
    shell
  
  $ readlink --canonicalize "$(type -P which)"
/nix/store/r78jv9xgxnvsm5vpasf5ldkc28pkri6r-which-2.21/bin/which

$ nix-store --query --references /nix/store/r78jv9xgxnvsm5vpasf5ldkc28pkri6r-which-2.21
/nix/store/4nlgxhb09sdr51nc9hdm8az5b08vzkgx-glibc-2.35-163

which directly depends on glibc. Swap --references to --referrers for paths pointing to which. On Guix, list/draw dependencies with guix graph.

  
    shell
  
  guix graph --type=references which
nix-store --query --tree "$(readlink --canonicalize "$(type -P which)")"

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