Re: How to reference external program used in shell-scripts?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> writes:

> I would expect in both cases, if a required package is updated, this
> package will be updated, too. Right?

Whenever an input is changed the package will be rebuilt, because we
can’t know if the presence of a package will affect the build or not.

In the case of patching references the presence of the input *will*
affect the output (as a reference to the absolute file name will be
recorded).  In the case of propagated inputs it’s really the same,
expect that the package will also be installed into the target profile.

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Ricardo