[Nix-dev] Re: [Want to commit this week] deepOverride replacement when callPackage is used

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 04:44:46PM +0400, Michael Raskin wrote:
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> (there is some space for making that more compact - that is more
> explicit/debuggable form than absolutely needed)

I like that explicit form. Why isn't it better than a shorter?

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> >> gnome subset gets old glib
> >> whatever I do (and I guess overriding gtk would be even worse).
> > Offtopic: what do you want to override in gtkLibs.glib?
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> I want to add Empathy package - it needs glib 2.25. So I want a package
> inside NixPkgs that uses everything built with a fresher glib.
Also the new icewm, for what I remember, using the new gdk_pixbuf (in
mirror://gnome), it needs glib 2.25.

Regards,
Lluís.