Allow packages to be marked as "broken" by setting meta.broken

The effect is that they won't show up in "nix-env -qa" anymore.
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Eelco Dolstra
2013-11-04 20:32:49 +01:00
parent 01087750ba
commit 754704ea18
6 changed files with 24 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ interpretation:</para>
package).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>broken</varname></term>
<listitem><para>If set to <literal>true</literal>, the package is
marked as “broken”, meaning that it wont show up in
<literal>nix-env -qa</literal>, and cannot be built or installed.
Sush packages should be removed from Nixpkgs eventually unless
they are fixed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>