Hi! Freddy Rietdijk <[email protected]> skribis:
> 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. Internally the “out” output is not required at all, except for fixed-output derivations. The only difference compared to other output names is that it gets special treatment when computing its store file name (see ‘makeOutputPath’ in store-api.cc.) Ludo’. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
