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This flake makes a point of using lix where possible.

To do so we add the following snippet taken from modules/base/nix/overlays/default.nix. What this does is use lix where possible rather than nix.

_: prev: {
  # in order to reduce our closure size, we can override these packages to
  # use the nix package that we have installed, this will trigget a rebuild
  # of the packages that depend on them so hopefully its worth it for that
  # system space
  nixVersions.stable = config.nix.package;

  # make sure to restore nix for linking back to nix from nixpkgs as its
  # used for other things then the cli implementaion
  nixForLinking = prev.nixVersions.stable;
}

Futhermore, I add the following patches:

• callpackage cli - a patch to add -C to nix build to allow you to build a package from a file.
• abs builtin - adds the abs builtin
• greaterThan builtin - adds the greaterThan builtin
• pow builtin - adds the pow builtin

None of the patches should be used in production code but are nice to have.