I'd say it just wasn't changed since the convention is old to alwas require $out :)
You can probably make it optional, but who knows what will break. On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Freddy Rietdijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Nix and now also multiple outputs for my data analysis and > simulations. Many scripts generate several files and instead of having them > together in the same store path I would prefer to put them in separate > store paths. > > I'm not using any of the common outputs like $out and $bin. The multiple > outputs feature seems to require that $out is used. Therefore I now just > put a single file in $out. What is the reason this is needed? I saw in the > documentation that leftover files are typically put in $out. > > Freddy > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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