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Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:

> True if you ignore my message about the state being in two places and
> the database can go out of sync/be corrupt.
>
> Rebuilding the database from a store layout would take many of my
> concerns away. What do we have against it?

It=E2=80=99s not about being for or against.  :-)

The important state is in the database.  So if something is to be
rebuilt, it=E2=80=99s the store, not the database.

The database cannot be =E2=80=9Cguessed=E2=80=9D from the set of files foun=
d under
/gnu/store because not all of them are valid.

This is the current design, and it=E2=80=99s consistent.  One could come up=
 with
a different design, like Taylan suggested, but we have yet to see what
could be better than this.

Ludo=E2=80=99.