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Manual: Add a warning that overrideDerivation should not be used
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<section xml:id="sec-pkg-overrideDerivation">
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<title><pkg>.overrideDerivation</title>
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<warning>
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<para>Do not use this function in Nixpkgs. Because it breaks
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package abstraction and doesn’t provide error checking for
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function arguments, it is only intended for ad-hoc customisation
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(such as in <filename>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</filename>).</para>
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</warning>
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<para>
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The function <varname>overrideDerivation</varname> is usually available for all the
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derivations in the nixpkgs expression (<varname>pkgs</varname>).