John Ericson
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If my memory is correct, @edolstra objected to modifying `wantedOutputs` upon falling back to doing a build (as we did before), because we should only modify it in response to new requests --- *actual* wants --- and not because we are "incidentally" building all the outptus beyond what may have been requested. That's a fair point, and the alternative is to replace the boolean soup with proper enums: Instead of modifying `wantedOuputs` som more, we'll modify `needsRestart` to indicate we are passed the need.
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