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Mention rebuilds in best practices #765

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This is a small PR that adds a sentence about needless rebuilds to the "Reproducible source paths" section of the "Best Practices" page. This section currently mentions impurities, but there are actual practical concerns around using a fixed name, such as cache misses locally and in CI. Ask me how I know.

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Very good point. Incidentally I just ran into exactly this problem the other day.

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