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ofborg relies on the behavior that existed prior to 1c00bf39, where evaluation would immediately abort due to a missing argument (whether it be an aliased package when `allowAliases = false;` or a typo'd or otherwise nonexistent package). If `callPackageWith` `throw`s instead of `abort`s, the following `nix-env` invocation does not fail fast but instead silently skips the attribute (assuming there is a package that has an aliased package in its `autoArgs`): $ nix-env -qa --json --file . --arg config '{ allowAliases = false; }' &>/dev/null $ echo $? 0 This does change the error output when there is a missing package (for any of the reasons mentioned above), though. Before this change, the errors looked like this: $ nix-build -A hello --arg config '{ allowAliases = false; }' error: … while calling the 'throw' builtin at /home/vin/workspace/vcs/nixpkgs/master/lib/customisation.nix:179:65: 178| 179| in if missingArgs == [] then makeOverridable f allArgs else throw error; | ^ 180| error: Function called without required argument "bash_5" at /home/vin/workspace/vcs/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix:8, did you mean "bash" or "bashdb"? And the errors now look like this: $ nix-build -A hello --arg config '{ allowAliases = false; }' error: … while calling the 'abort' builtin at /home/vin/workspace/vcs/nixpkgs/master/lib/customisation.nix:179:65: 178| 179| in if missingArgs == [] then makeOverridable f allArgs else abort error; | ^ 180| error: evaluation aborted with the following error message: 'Function called without required argument "bash_5" at /home/vin/workspace/vcs/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/default.nix:8, did you mean "bash" or "bashdb"?'