Hi Ricardo, On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 17:34, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote:
> That’s correct. Outputs are buckets into which we drop build > artifacts. We will build everything with all inputs in one derivation > and then move stuff into output buckets. This means that you can > download independent outputs individually, but they are still all the > result of that *single* derivation. So to build any of the outputs you > will need to build that derivation, even if it also results in other > outputs that you don’t care about. Thank you for the explanations. I understand even if time to time I feel frustrated to download and/or build a lot of unrelated packages that I am really interested in. But hey, it is how the thing works. :-) Now all is clear. Cheers, simon
