attrValues of flake overlays not working

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Hello!

As in the title; when I use attrValues overlays, such as in the following example:

{
    description = "Shared settings for our packages!";
    inputs = {
        nixpkgs.url = github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-22.05;
        flake-utils.url = github:numtide/flake-utils;
        flake-compat = {
            url = "github:edolstra/flake-compat";
            flake = false;
        };
    };
    outputs = inputs@{ self, nixpkgs, flake-utils, ... }: with builtins; with flake-utils.lib; let
        lib = import ./package.nix nixpkgs;
        overlays = with lib; rec {
            overlays = let
                lib-overlay = import ./overlay.nix nixpkgs;
            in j.foldToSet' [
                {
                    lib = lib-overlay;
                    default = lib-overlay;
                }
                (j.imports.overlaySet {
                    dir = ./callPackages/python2;
                    func = file: final: prev: j.update.python.callPython.two final prev file;
                })
                (j.imports.overlaySet {
                    dir = ./callPackages/python3;
                    func = file: final: prev: j.update.python.callPython.three final prev file;
                })
                (j.imports.set { dir = ./overlays; recursive = true; ignores.dirs = true; })
                (j.imports.overlaySet { dir = ./callPackages; call = 1; })
            ];
            overlay = overlays.default;
            defaultOverlay = overlay;
        };
        make = system: with lib; rec {

            # This does not work
            legacyPackages = import nixpkgs { inherit system; overlays = attrValues overlays.overlays; };

            # This works
            legacyPackages = import nixpkgs { inherit system; overlays = with overlays.overlays; [ overlays.overlays.lib Python autoslot ]; };

            # Traced here
            packages = flattenTree (let _ = j.filters.has.attrs legacyPackages (unique (flatten [
                (subtractLists (attrNames nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system}) (attrNames legacyPackages))
                (attrNames overlays.overlays)
            ])); in trace (attrNames legacyPackages.Python.pkgs.autoslot) _);

            package = packages.default;
            defaultPackage = package;
            apps.default = settings.make.app package;
            app = apps.default;
            defaultApp = app;
            devShells.default = import ./devShell.nix system self;
            devShell = devShells.default;
            defaultdevShell = devShell;
        };
    in (eachSystem allSystems make) // overlays // { inherit lib; };
}

Specifying overlays manually works, while attrValues overlays.overlays does not, giving me the error error: attribute 'autoslot' missing.

Thank you kindly for the help!

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The reason for this were the Python Packages not updating with each new overlay; solved by Jan Tojnar’s reply here:

overlays =
  let
    emptyOverlay = final: prev: {};
  in
  {
    autoslot = final: prev: {
      python310 = prev.python310.override (prevArgs: {
        packageOverrides =
          let
            ourOverlay = new: old: {
              autoslot = new.callPackage ./autoslot.nix {};
            };
          in
          prev.lib.composeExtensions
            prevArgs.packageOverrides or emptyOverlay
            ourOverlay;
      });
    };
    backtrace = final: prev: {
      python310 = prev.python310.override (prevArgs: {
        packageOverrides =
          let
            ourOverlay = new: old: {
              backtrace = new.callPackage ./backtrace.nix {};
            };
          in
          prev.lib.composeExtensions
            prevArgs.packageOverrides or emptyOverlay
            ourOverlay;
      });
    };
  }