[Nix-dev] package-darcs package-svn package-v.v.v ?

[Andres Loeh]

> A nice feature would be the ability to define your own ordering.  This would
> allow packages to be renamed.  For instance, yesterday I found out that the
> "docbook5-xsl" package should really be named "docbook-xsl-ns".  So you could
> like to have a rule like "docbook5-xsl" < "docbook-xsl-ns" so that nix-env will
> upgrade the former to the latter.

This would be really cool, especially if a user could extend or
configure the ordering. Is the current partial order specified
in the Nix language itself, or is it "hardcoded"?

Cheers,
  Andres
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