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lib.fileset: Add an additional argument in the design docs #264892

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Expand Up @@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ Arguments:
This use case makes little sense for files that are already in the store.
This should be a separate abstraction as e.g. `pkgs.drvLayout` instead, which could have a similar interface but be specific to derivations.
Additional capabilities could be supported that can't be done at evaluation time, such as renaming files, creating new directories, setting executable bits, etc.
- (+) An API for filtering/transforming Nix store paths could be much more powerful,
because it's not limited to just what is possible at evaluation time with `builtins.path`.
Operations such as moving and adding files would be supported.

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