[Nix-dev] Re: Nixos: mkOverride

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Mon Mar 2 23:04:23 CET 2009


Hello,

Nicolas Pierron
<nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> writes:

> Priorities are higher it the priority number is lesser than the other.
>  All higher priorities values are merged together and lower priority
> values are ignored (enable options).

My first reaction is that this is fragile because priorities have
non-lexical scope, meaning that one can't tell from looking at a file
what will end up in the final derivation.

Thanks,
Ludo'.




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