[Nix-dev] My blog post on overrides in Nix

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 22/04/14 20:46, James Cook wrote:

> On 22 April 2014 09:15,  <roconnor at theorem.ca> wrote:
>> I spent the weekend trying to unravel the mystery of how the various
>> override mechanisms in Nixpkgs work.  I wrote up my findings in a blog
>> post.
>>
>> <http://r6.ca/blog/20140422T142911Z.html>
>>
>> Let me know if you find any factual error, or have any other comments.
> 
> Thanks; this was enlightening.  I also didn't know about the
> nix-instantiate --eval-only - trick.

BTW, for playing with the language you may want to check out the nix-repl
package ("nix-env -i nix-repl").

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/