[Nix-dev] Re: What about introducing deprecated or such an attr name?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> While on the subject, we could have an attribute that specifies that one package
> is a replacement of some other, removed package.  E.g. if we remove tetex, we
> could say in texlive something like
>
>   meta = {
>     upgrades = ["tetex"];
>   };
>
> and then if you do a nix-env -u \*, tetex would be upgraded to texlive
> automatically.

+1.

Ludo'.