[Nix-dev] What about causing hard failures when trying to install superseded packages?

[Lluís Batlle]

2009/11/9 Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>:
> Another possibility: add a meta.replaces attribute that tells nix-env that a
> package is an upgrade to a package with another name.  For instance, for
> qemu-kvm, we would have:
>
>  meta.replaces = [ "kvm" ];
>

I don't think this would have helped me much... I was looking for kvm,
and I found kvm. I would not have seen this meta.replaces unless
already looking for qemu-kvm.

Thank you,
Lluís.