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@syn Yes, though arguably an accidental one, sort of - it's not really what the dependency system was *designed* for afaik, just a consequence of the design choices
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@joepie91 I'd argue that "exact input tracking" is very much an explicit design goal
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@syn Yes, but not for the specific purpose of knowing what packages to rebuild if a backdoor were ever discovered
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@syn (It's kind of hard to classify these things because Nix is in a category of software where "benefits we didn't anticipate" are expected as a category, it's just not known which benefits they will be)