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aliases for package sets #119289

Open davidak opened 3 years ago

davidak commented 3 years ago

Issue description

Package sets typically do not have aliases.

said @FRidh in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116475#issuecomment-812831971

it would be good to have them, for example when a package is removed

the question is how to organize it.

it would add a huge mess to add an aliases file in addition to every package set in pkgs/top-level/

so i suggest to add a directory aliases in pkgs/top-level/

what do you think?

dotlambda commented 3 years ago

relevant: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/116367