From 643687e47778bdea00c54598a55d18c2cacac911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?L=C3=A9ana=20=E6=B1=9F?= <leana.jiang+git@icloud.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2026 17:15:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] overlays/nix-monitored: hack to drop system override of nix
 package

---
 nix/overlays/nix-monitored.nix | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nix/overlays/nix-monitored.nix b/nix/overlays/nix-monitored.nix
index 0c693f53..464616ab 100644
--- a/nix/overlays/nix-monitored.nix
+++ b/nix/overlays/nix-monitored.nix
@@ -15,11 +15,20 @@ let
   nix-monitored = nix-monitored-noisy.override {
     withNotify = false;
   };
+
+  keepNixOverride =
+    drv:
+    drv
+    // {
+      override = args: drv.override (builtins.removeAttrs args [ "nix" ]);
+    };
 in
 {
-  nixos-rebuild = prev.nixos-rebuild.override {
-    nix = nix-monitored-noisy;
-  };
+  nixos-rebuild-ng = keepNixOverride (
+    prev.nixos-rebuild-ng.override {
+      nix = nix-monitored-noisy;
+    }
+  );
   nix-direnv = prev.nix-direnv.override {
     nix = nix-monitored;
   };