Help to solve an infinite loop caused in a package

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Hi,

I updated ferdium in order to add the support of screensharing on wayland.
The package is built using a generic base located in the package franz (ferdium has common roots with it). In the latter there is a definition of a derivation which is loaded as the function named mkFranzDerivation.

Code can be found here: ferdium: add screenshart support on wayland · aacebedo/nixpkgs@f161e13 · GitHub

So I added an attr named enableWayland in the generic based and an option in the ferdium package. However if I set the attr in the ferdium package like this enableWayland = enableWayland It ends un in an infinite loop as I do not know how to scope the parameter correctly.

What would be the best solution? change the name of the parameter or add something to scope it?

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Or avoid rec in favor of passing a function to mkDerivation which has the added benefit of making overrideAttrs able to propagate changes to dependent attributes.

There’s also this:

nix-repl> let a = 1; in (rec { a = a; }).a     
error: infinite recursion encountered

       at «string»:1:26:

            1| let a = 1; in (rec { a = a; }).a
             |                          ^

nix-repl> let a = 1; in (rec { inherit a; }).a
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Thank you! I used the inherit keyword and it worked. I prefer to keep the original intent of the maintainer on this aspect so didn’t choose to change the rec