
Episode 489: Sam Boyer Package Management
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Is There a Command or Setting Where I Can Depend on an Override?
Overrides are only a power that can be given to the root package in the graph. The point of an override is, well, this has higher priority than everything else. But as soon as you're down in the deptite, like, if b had n't over ride and c had an over rit, wouldn't matter,. Because now we can't pick one which, you know, supersedes. So it's this just like spread of overrides that that goes through the package graft. And the deep breakhets the worst ofgans. Sounds very fragile.
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