John Ericson
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I think this better captures the intent of what's going on: we either have an opaque store path, or a drv path with some outputs. Having this structure will also help us support CA derivations: we'll have to allow the outpath paths to be optional, so the structure we gain now makes up for the structure we loose then.
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