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@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@ Nix stores have the *closure property*: for each store object in the store, all
Building, copying and deleting store objects must be done in a way that obeys this property:
-- We can only safely delete unreferenced objects.
+- Build results must only refer to store objects in the closure of the build inputs.
-- When copying, to maintain correctness, either the result must be "revealed" atomically to the destination store, or objects must be copied in reference-dependency order.
+- Store objects being copied must refer to objects already in the destination store.
+ Recursive copying must either proceed in dependency order or be atomic.
-- Newly built store objects must only refer to store objects in the closure of the build inputs.
- This ensures the purity of the build.
+- We can only safely delete unreferenced objects.
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