Eelco Dolstra
3c75ddc16b
Fixes #3872. This is a bit hacky. Ideally we would automatically re-evaluate the failed attribute iff we need to print the error message (so in commands like 'nix search' we wouldn't re-evaluate because we're suppressing errors).
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