Hi Maxim,

> It's not good to surprise user expectations in such a way, especially if
> it can expose them to legal problems (no matter how unlikely).
> 
> I hope that helps put a light on what the remaining issue is, which
> should be fixed (in my opinion) before #55231 can be merged.

I am inclined to agree with this view. I've attempted in this series of patches 
to address the issue in a manner which prevents this surprising of user 
expectations, as well as addressing Ludo's performance concerns by restricting 
the checks on dependency graphs to initrds only. This will still have some 
performance implications, of course, but should be much less than performing 
the checks on every single package. I would appreciate you and Ludo's opinions 
on this. In particular, if it addresses the user expectations concern for you, 
and if it addresses Ludo's performance concerns. I know that adding an extra 
parameter to `derivation` is not ideal, but it's the only way that I can see to 
avoid performing the check on every single derivation.

Best,

Morgan

P.S. My commit message should probably be modified, and I assume that there are 
some documentation changes that ought to be made that I'm missing here, I just 
wanted to solicit opinions on the functionality.

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