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author | Matthieu Coudron <mattator@gmail.com> | 2017-09-21T01·25+0900 |
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committer | Matthieu Coudron <mattator@gmail.com> | 2017-09-21T01·25+0900 |
commit | 6920c237016e5f33d06f948a6f8485e23c1900f6 (patch) | |
tree | 2c27f445bb9aaa92c398e73590ebb24557be0fbb /src/nix | |
parent | 84f112b1c8d3c5181b7a9b11d309f14f1709480d (diff) |
Improve error message for conflicting priorities
I find the error message 'nix-env --set-flag priority NUMBER PKGNAME' not as helpful as it could be : - doesn't share the current priorities - doesn't say that the command must be run on the already installed PKGNAME (which is confusing the first time) - the doc needs careful reading: "If there are multiple derivations matching a name in args that have the same name (e.g., gcc-3.3.6 and gcc-4.1.1), then the derivation with the highest priority is used." if one stops reading there, he is screwed. Salvation comes with reading "A derivation can define a priority by declaring the meta.priority attribute. This attribute should be a number, with a higher value denoting a lower priority. The default priority is 0." To sum it up, lower number wins. I tried to convey this idea in the message too.
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