From 754704ea1884563beda72ddff2ab328e690278d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 20:32:49 +0100
Subject: 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.
---
 doc/meta.xml | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/meta.xml')

diff --git a/doc/meta.xml b/doc/meta.xml
index 09252410d8072..df84915cc0915 100644
--- a/doc/meta.xml
+++ b/doc/meta.xml
@@ -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 won’t 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>
 
 
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