nix develop: Add --redirect flag to redirect dependencies
This is primarily useful if you're hacking simultaneously on a package and one of its dependencies. E.g. if you're hacking on Hydra and Nix, you would start a dev shell for Nix, and then a dev shell for Hydra as follows: $ nix develop \ --redirect .#hydraJobs.build.x86_64-linux.nix ~/Dev/nix/outputs/out \ --redirect .#hydraJobs.build.x86_64-linux.nix.dev ~/Dev/nix/outputs/dev (This assumes hydraJobs.build.x86_64-linux has a passthru.nix attribute. You can also use a store path.) This causes all references in the environment to those store paths to be rewritten to ~/Dev/nix/outputs/{out,dev}. Note: unfortunately, you may need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/Dev/nix/outputs/out/lib because Nixpkgs' ld-wrapper only adds -rpath entries for -L flags that point to the Nix store.
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