Hi, On Tue, Nov 07 2023, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> Felix Lechner via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes: >> >>> Those shortfalls are a consequence of our packaging habits. In an ideal >>> world, would running a test suite ever build a different derivation? > > You seem to be confusing 'derivation', which is the build recipe > description that a package "compiles" to, with the package output, the > result of executing the derivation. Maybe that comment was not a response to mine. Either way, please allow me to restate what I meant: A source tree should produce the same derivation regardless of whether build-time tests ran or didn't. It should also pull the same substitute. Kind regards Felix
