Is there a way to specify an entirely different set of :deps for an alias? (i.e. no merge, no override, just different value)

@martinklepsch in what context?

@dominicm not sure I understand what you mean by context? 😄

I’d like to swap out the value of :deps in the top level map by another value via an alias

So from the clj command line use? What's the use case?

:override-deps should do it, but I think there is an acknowledged bug when the override is of a different "type" (mvn/git)

https://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/TDEPS-51

@ghadi I think @martinklepsch means that he wants to have:

{:deps {A {:mvn/version "1.1.0"}}
 :aliases {:B {:the-new-deps {B {:mvn/version "5.4.1"}}}}}

oh

yeah, that’s it @dominicm

I think this has come up before -- not supported by aliases, but perhaps by a different deps.edn file

I don't understand why you'd practically need that though 🙂

I suppose you could actually have:

{:deps {}
 :aliases {:A {:extra-deps {A …}} :B {:extra-deps {B …}}}}

yeah aliases would work I think

I’m not 100% sure I need it either but I come up with some approaches and have no idea what tools-deps allows for so just asking 😄 sorry for the noise 🙂

no problem @martinklepsch not noise at all

It does seem a bit "off-label prescription"

(the use case)

@ghadi cool, thanks 🙂

If I specify a deps.edn with -Sdeps any local deps.edn in the working directory should be ignored — is that correct?

No, though others have tripped over that wording too.

uh, yeah, especially that “final” part: “Deps data to use as the final deps file”

is there another way to achieve it then? specifying a file would also be fine, just looking for something that ignores an existing deps.edn

Final in the context of merging together deps.edn files 🙂

Hm, the word “final” creates a different expectation for me 😄 So is the only way to run a clj process with a deps.edn that’s different than the one in the current working directory to move files around?

I think the proposal was to change it to last.

Not that I know of. I think pack is unique in utilizing tools.deps.alpha in that way, and I'm not sure it really works due to the cwd being internal to t.d.a rather than passed in.

Maybe another option could be added

https://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/TDEPS-87

-Sdeps!

How well does that work in shells?

I was actually kidding :)