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doc: nodejs: Update override example to use overlays

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Also: Add links so it'll be easier to find the referred files.
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@ -25,12 +25,13 @@ build system it uses. Here are some examples:
After you have identified the correct system, you need to override your package
expression while adding in build system as a build input. For example, `dat`
requires `node-gyp-build`, so we override its expression in `default.nix`:
requires `node-gyp-build`, so [we override](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/32f5e5da4a1b3f0595527f5195ac3a91451e9b56/pkgs/development/node-packages/default.nix#L37-L40) its expression in [`default.nix`](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/node-packages/default.nix):
```nix
dat = nodePackages.dat.override (oldAttrs: {
buildInputs = oldAttrs.buildInputs ++ [ nodePackages.node-gyp-build ];
});
dat = super.dat.override {
buildInputs = [ self.node-gyp-build pkgs.libtool pkgs.autoconf pkgs.automake ];
meta.broken = since "12";
};
```
To add a package from NPM to nixpkgs: