Publishing a hex package with overridden dependencies

Questions / Help
1

I have just discovered that it is not possible to publish a hex package with overridden dependency:

  • (Mix) Can’t build package with overridden dependency ranch_proxy_protocol, remove override: true

Could someone explain me the motivation behind it? Are there any workarounds / alternatives?

2

Only the toplevel app is able to override. So overriding in a package in hex is quite senseless, as it probably will never be the toplevel application.

3

Imagine a scenario where I am using your package :foo and the overridden package :override. You are overriding to version 2.0.0, and I want to use ~> 1.1.0. How much time do you think would be spent trying to figure out why a different version than what I told the system to use is actually downloaded?

4

If you actually depend on something (eg. a path dep) that :overrides something, than that override is ignored AFAIK.

Either you override from the top-most application, or you don’t do it at all.