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Add overlays mechanism to Nixpkgs.#21243

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nbp merged 13 commits intoNixOS:masterNixOS/nixpkgs:masterfrom

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Add overlays mechanism to Nixpkgs.#21243
nbp merged 13 commits intoNixOS:masterfrom
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Commits on Jan 14, 2017

Add overlays mechanism to Nixpkgs.
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Add NixOS option 'nixpkgs.overlays' to set the argument of Nixpkgs.
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Add missing line break in the release notes.
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Throw an error if NIXPKGS_OVERLAYS is invalid and improve documentation.
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Replace 'phases' by 'layers' in overlays documentation.
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Improve the realse notes with the upcoming documentation links, and a better example of how to convert overridePackages usage.
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Commits on Jan 15, 2017

Update overlay documentation by following nits from aneeshusa.
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Fix typo in nixpkgs.nix module.
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Fix missing overlays argument in stdenv/linux/default.nix
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Fix extra nits from aneeshusa
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Fix typo, lib.listOf --> types.listOf
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Fix nixpkgs manual generation, missing para closing tag.
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Fix release-notes compilation.
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