lix/doc/manual/rl-next/fix-nested-follows.md
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synopsis: Fix nested flake input `follows`
prs: 6621
cls: 994
credits: [Kha, ma27]
category: Fixes
significance: significant
---
Previously nested-input overrides were ignored; that is, the following did not
override anything, in spite of the `nix3-flake` manual documenting it working:
```
{
inputs = {
foo.url = "github:bar/foo";
foo.inputs.bar.inputs.nixpkgs = "nixpkgs";
};
}
```
This is useful to avoid the 1000 instances of nixpkgs problem without having
each flake in the dependency tree to expose all of its transitive dependencies
for modification.