Cebidaez

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Lost In Overlays in c/nixos@lemmy.ml
[–] Cebidaez@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

enableTidy

I recently had a chance to take a look at the nano.nix file on github responsible for building nano. But I don't see where the enableTidy attribute is declared did you mean enableTiny by any chance?

Lost In Overlays in c/nixos@lemmy.ml
[–] Cebidaez@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

It all makes sense now!

Lost In Overlays in c/nixos@lemmy.ml
[–] Cebidaez@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Inside of this example would the sets that are changeable inside of .override like bar for example be the definitions made within the .nix file for a respective package? I'm trying to understand how I know what can be overridden.

Lost In Overlays in c/nixos@lemmy.ml
[–] Cebidaez@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So If I am understanding this, Overlays are a way to apply changes to the package via its definition using already existing mentions like overriding and such then propagating those changes outside to an entire set of packages.

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Lost In Overlays (lemmy.sdf.org)
 

I've been messing around with nix flakes to configure my NixOS system and to put the final touches on I wanted to write an overlay of Neovim with the plugins and everything configured with Lua and then use this overlay to install neovim-qt. After reading various docs on Overlays, I get the fundamentals but I don't get where to look to find a list of all the configurable options that an overlay provides? Typically I can look in the home-mananger nix decleration of a package for the options exposed or nixpkgs for the options in configuration.nix. Any help that will dive deeper into overlays or where to find their options would be greatly appreciated!