[Nix-dev] Re: Nixos: mkOverride

[Ludovic Courtès]

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'.