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Thanks, that looks good, and some of the references at the end might also help. I'll look around to see if the paper has any interesting reverse-dependencies later.

This is exactly why I asked this publicly, and oh wow @MattPD . Super cool when people keep bibliographies. Maybe rui will find a key paper one week before needing...

Companion to https://github.com/erikarvstedt/extra-container/issues/16

`If stage1.config.containers..extra.overrideArgs is set, a detour is taken through the stage2 function which does the actual overriding.` Note that stage1 is evaluated twice, once with the host NIX_PATH, to get...

Caveat: depending on implementation, this could mean evaluating extra-container/eval-config under different nixpkgs versions for stage1 and stage2? Alternatively there could be a second nix file for parameters, though sicne there...

Yeah that's an idea. I'll give it a shot later. - but then it's still a multi-step process for the user.

Not all of the community agrees with the flakes approach, and I think pure nix-lang based solutions can be better in some ways. I haven't poked more at this specific...

Ok, apparently this exists, and I'm not actually sure what it does, but it looks suspiciously like what I want: ``` containers..nixpkgs A path to the nixpkgs that provide the...

That's funny, I just noticed you committed https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/9a283a038d3c028f8b067c6b2e56f2e38bd93192 after not being able to figure out why container.*.nixpkgs wasn't changing anything ~while using an old channel~. Edit: - I'm using unstable...

It would be nice if the PR could be finished?