| 12 Oct 2025 |
midischwarz12 | * You overlay when you want to stitch multiple overrides together or want the override available across your entire package set such as nixpkgs. What you're really desiring is just a single override and probably not overriding every package that consumes this package as a dependency. So an overlay would be unnecessary | 16:40:03 |
midischwarz12 | * You overlay when you want to stitch multiple overrides together or want the override available across your entire package set such as nixpkgs when used as a dependency. What you're really desiring is just a single override and probably not overriding every package that consumes this package as a dependency. So an overlay would be unnecessary | 16:40:25 |
midischwarz12 | I think overlays are often reached for a bit too early and people should take note more often that this ruins a lot of the reproducible nature of nix. Your nixpkgs will no longer be the same as everyone else's when you use an overlay | 16:41:25 |
Sergei Zimmerman (xokdvium) | Adding builds with ASAN/UBSAN to hydraJobs: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14227 | 16:59:48 |
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| 13 Oct 2025 |
tavinator | ok did you mean doing something like what's described on this page? https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/17-nixpkgs-overriding-packages.html | 10:27:48 |