From 8ffac03ad65e4f6291ed8f8f1e96fd02894cae44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mihai Fufezan <fufexan@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 15:41:56 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Nix: add Overrides section

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 pages/Nix/_index.md | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pages/Nix/_index.md b/pages/Nix/_index.md
index af7189a..5e827dd 100644
--- a/pages/Nix/_index.md
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@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ drivers. To get around that, you can use [nixGL](https://github.com/guibou/nixGL
 
 First, install it, in the same manner you installed Hyprland:
 ```sh
-$ nix profile install github:guibou/nixGL
+$ nix profile install github:guibou/nixGL --impure
 ```
+Impure is needed due to `nixGL`'s reliance on hardware information.
 
 From now on, you can run Hyprland by invoking it with nixGL
 ```sh
@@ -202,3 +203,19 @@ this cache to download the binary directly, instead of building locally.
   };
 }
 ```
+
+## Overrides
+
+You can override the package through `.override` or `.overrideAttrs`. This is
+easily achievable through NixOS or Home Manager.
+
+If you're using Nix (and not NixOS or Home Manager) and you want to override,
+you can do it like this
+
+```sh
+$ nix repl
+nix-repl> :lf "github:hyprwm/Hyprland"
+nix-repl> :bl outputs.packages.x86_64-linux.hyprland.override { nvidiaPatches = true; } # option = value
+```
+
+Then you can run Hyprland from the built path.