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This is useful for adding extra functionality or defaults to _every_ nixos evaluation. My use case is overriding behaviour for all nixos tests, for example setting packageOverrides to newer versions and changing some default dependencies/settings. By making this accessible through an environment variable, this can now be fully accomplished externally. No more need to fork nixos/nixpkgs (which becomes a maintenance burden), just use the channel instead and plug in via this envvar.
*** NixOS *** NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the purely functional package management system Nix. More information can be found at http://nixos.org/nixos and in the manual in doc/manual.