09:09 <Chiliparrot> Hi there!

09:09 <Chiliparrot> I guess it's terrible obvious, but I couldn't find the right spot in the docs... when I want to install a variant of a package (e.g. dovecot with support for mySQL or Postgres), how is this done with nix-env? (or do I have to use a config file for that?)

09:49 <LnL> yeah, the current cli doesn't know about customisations

09:50 <LnL> and if you would install manually, you'd loose it with the next update

09:50 <LnL> https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-overlays

09:55 <Chiliparrot> LnL not my preferred answer, but better to be sure it's not possible than spending days trying variations of " --arg withMySQL true" ;-) - thank you!

10:06 <LnL> that only works for global nixpkgs options like --arg config.allowBroken true, not overrides

10:08 <LnL> and while editing a file isn't as nice for simple things it does make it much easier to reproduce or reason about what's installed