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| The paths in ''VALET_PATH'' will be consulted in the order they are specified, and VALET's default configuration directory is implicitly added to the end of the list of paths. This means you can "override" packages that are defined elsewhere. For example, if I add ''openmpi.vpkg'' to my ''~/.valet'' directory, then ''vpkg_require openmpi'' will use the definitions in ''~/.valet/openmpi.vpkg'' in preference to the ones defined by the system administrator in VALET's default configuration directory. | The paths in ''VALET_PATH'' will be consulted in the order they are specified, and VALET's default configuration directory is implicitly added to the end of the list of paths. This means you can "override" packages that are defined elsewhere. For example, if I add ''openmpi.vpkg'' to my ''~/.valet'' directory, then ''vpkg_require openmpi'' will use the definitions in ''~/.valet/openmpi.vpkg'' in preference to the ones defined by the system administrator in VALET's default configuration directory. |
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| ====== Further Reading ====== | |
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| Please use the following links to continue learning about VALET. | ---- |
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| * the XML language used in [[:software:valet:03_packagefile|VALET 1 package definition files]] | [[software:valet:valet|Prev: Intro]] | [[software:valet:03_packagefile|Next: XML Package Files]] |
| * the XML language used in [[:software:valet:03b_packagefile|VALET 2 package definition files]] | |
| * the JSON language used in [[:software:valet:04_packagefile|VALET 2 package definition files]] | |