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Subject: Re: reproducibility
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:49:27 +0100
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Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:

> I've noticed that a derivation is a function of the order of the
> inputs. As an example, the following two input orders give rise to two
> distinct derivations:
>
> A)
>
>     (inputs
>      `(("texlive" ,texlive)
>        ("texinfo" ,texinfo)
>        ("m4" ,m4)
>        ("libx11" ,libx11))
>
> B)
>     (inputs
>      `(("texinfo" ,texinfo)
>        ("texlive" ,texlive)
>        ("m4" ,m4)
>        ("libx11" ,libx11))
>
> Is this intentional?

Yes.  There are several places where order matters, most importantly
search paths, and these are computed from the input lists.

Ludo=E2=80=99.