On Jul 24, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Bryce L Nordgren <[email protected]> wrote:

> If I could ask the dumb question...Certainly a particular build has only one 
> derivation (the "deriver" in the manifest), but can a derivation have more 
> than one build? I notice that "References" in the manifest refers to other 
> builds, not to other derivations. I assume there's a reason for the 
> distinction? 
> 

Not more than one build, but more than one output. The feature is not complete, 
but a single build can create more than one path in the nix store that, after 
the build succeeds, can be treated almost exactly as if they were built 
separately (e.g. they can be added separately as build inputs, one can be 
downloaded via a substitutor without the other, etc.).
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