[Nix-dev] My blog post on overrides in Nix
James Cook
james.cook at utoronto.ca
Tue Apr 22 20:46:37 CEST 2014
On 22 April 2014 09:15, <roconnor at theorem.ca> wrote:
> I spent the weekend trying to unravel the mystery of how the various
> override mechanisms in Nixpkgs work. I wrote up my findings in a blog
> post.
>
> <http://r6.ca/blog/20140422T142911Z.html>
>
> Let me know if you find any factual error, or have any other comments.
Thanks; this was enlightening. I also didn't know about the
nix-instantiate --eval-only - trick.
James
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