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Pinning nixos with npins

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@ -289,11 +289,11 @@ the NixOS option
The primary reason that Nix doesn't allow trivially overriding packages with a
different version is that it is a generalized build system building software
that has non-uniform expectations of how to be built. One can in indeed see
that has non-uniform expectations of how to be built. One can indeed see
that the "replace one version with some other in some file" idea is *almost*
reality in languages using `mkDerivation` directly, though one might have to
reality in languages that use `mkDerivation` directly, though one might have to
tweak other build properties sometimes. Architectural problems in nixpkgs
prevent this working for several ecosystems.
prevent this working for several ecosystems, though.
Another sort of issue is that nixpkgs tries to provide a mostly [globally
coherent] set of software versions, where, like most Linux distributions, there