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Nix Derivation Madness

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184 points birdculture | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.02s | source
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beardsciences ◴[31 Oct 25 15:16 UTC] No.45772979[source]▶
If I understand this correctly, upcoming Ca-derivations will fix this by making these situations expected, properly-handled cases rather than a weird bug? https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Ca-derivations
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1. setheron ◴[31 Oct 25 15:45 UTC] No.45773374[source]▶
ca-derivations from what i understand, fixed-output derivations but more general.

The point of the article to me (author) was that i found it odd that Nix replaces the derivations when calculating the output path but not the derivation path. (talking about "paths" in Nix is so hard!)

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2. beardsciences ◴[31 Oct 25 16:09 UTC] No.45773691[source]▶
That makes sense, thanks for clarifying. Great writeup.