[Nix-dev] Re: Rev. 27611 (applyGlobalOverrides)

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Eelco Dolstra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 08/15/2011 09:52 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> 
>> I've used applyGlobalOverrides in kde4x for the following reason.
>[snip]
>> Some parts of the official KDE releases depend on external packages
>> (e.g., libktorrent, kdevplatform). Now kde47.kdenetwork will use
>> libktorrent built against kdelibs-4.5.
>>
>> We have two solutions.
>>   * applyGlobalOverrides;
>>   * manually override quite a few packages in 'callPackage kde4x' call.
> 
> Other solution: move them into KDE,
No, because I don't want to maintain several copies of these packages 
kde4x.* is for packages included in the official KDE SC release.
> or do something similar to ‘linuxPackagesFor’
This seems reasonable. I'll try to do it.
> (i.e. move KDE-dependent packages into a function
> that takes KDE as an argument).
>