In our project we pull in the same dependency through multiple pip.parse hubs, and they're used different places in our build graph. We want to apply a patch in 1 of those versions, but not the others. Based on the current API accepting a specific wheel name, I expected this to happen automatically, since at least in our case the wheel name includes the version etc, such that it wouldn't have any conflicts across the other downloads. I was surprised to see the other downloads start warning with RECORD mismatches because the patches are applying there too.

I propose that when using file with pip.override, only the specific matching filename is patched. And instead add a new attribute such as whl_name (mirroring pip.whl_mods) that is a simplified name that would apply to all downloads of this wheel.

Thoughts?