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From: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Subject: reproducibility
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 11:53:27 +0100
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Hi,

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?

Regards,
Fede