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self-references may not be discoverable by grep #1

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So, Nix uses grepping to find out what the dependencies are after a build, and that hasn't been a problem so far. In a way, it is desireable to find out the build breaks when the symlink is absent, because that would be a source of non-determinism…

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veprbl commented Aug 12, 2017 •
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Strictly speaking, self-references are not a source of non-determinism. If self-reference is not caught, the intensional store will just not deduplicate some outputs, which acceptable. Having a safenet to ensure that such software continues to work could perhaps save human time, so it is not wasted on debugging.

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True - thanks!

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