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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-07-28 21:23:24 +0200
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2015-07-28 21:42:25 +0200
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Remove deepOverride
It's unused, and also a bad idea: because it recursively recomputes
every function argument and there is no sharing, you can get an
exponential (?) blowup in evaluation time. For example, evaluating
‘linuxPackages.kernel’ takes 0.09s and ~13 MiB, but evaluating
‘linuxPackages.kernel.deepOverride {}’ takes 3.6s and ~305 MiB.
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diff --git a/lib/deprecated.nix b/lib/deprecated.nix
index 54c253f2c34..3646f9e032a 100644
--- a/lib/deprecated.nix
+++ b/lib/deprecated.nix
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ rec {
                           } ));
 	withStdOverrides = base // {
 	   override = base.passthru.function;
-	   deepOverride = a : (base.passthru.function ((lib.mapAttrs (lib.deepOverrider a) base.passthru.args) // a));
 	   } ;
         in
 	withStdOverrides;