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Manual: Add a warning that overrideDerivation should not be used

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Eelco Dolstra 2015-12-02 13:54:24 +01:00
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@ -88,6 +88,13 @@ in ...</programlisting>
<section xml:id="sec-pkg-overrideDerivation">
<title>&lt;pkg&gt;.overrideDerivation</title>
<warning>
<para>Do not use this function in Nixpkgs. Because it breaks
package abstraction and doesn’t provide error checking for
function arguments, it is only intended for ad-hoc customisation
(such as in <filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>).</para>
</warning>
<para>
The function <varname>overrideDerivation</varname> is usually available for all the
derivations in the nixpkgs expression (<varname>pkgs</varname>).