[Nix-dev] [Want to commit this week] overriding gnome components

[Michael Raskin]

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		Hello.
	We have some package sets (like gnome) that reside in their own
all-packages.nix-like expressions. If we need to do a full override
(override libsoup and have libgweather use it, too), there is now no way
to do this with Gnome.
	I assume that just taking solution from all-packages.nix (__overrides)
should be good enough.
	Does anyone have a better solution? One option is to port these to
callPackage, too (when it becomes useful to anyone).
	I failed to find a way that leaves most of the expression unchanged and
doesn't use overrides (I have to get the attributes inside the
namespace, and if I don't use "rec" (and the old libsoup is in the local
scope for libgweather reference), I have just "with" which leads to
infinite recursion).
	If I get no recommendations, I plan to just use the top-level-like
solution for gnome-2.28.

	Michael Raskin
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