[Nix-dev] Resolve conflicting packages by overloading?

[Luca Bruno]

On 03/03/2015 00:02, Joel Moberg wrote:
> If I install a package that provides a resource that already exist in
> the environment I get a conflict, and from nix-env I get the
> suggestion to change the priority.
> Instead of setting priority, is there a way to instead specify which
> resources in a package that are allowed to be overloaded in the user
> environment?
>
> If this feature does not exist, could it be implemented?
It could be implemented, it's about what symlink is chosen. Now the
granularity is on package-level, but I guess it can be on file-level, if
that's what you meant.