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by singron 1068 days ago
One thing I love about NixOS so far is that when they do a rename, they can print a deprecation warning every time you use the old name while evaluating your config. When I get a moment, I go through and fix them.

You could probably do something similar in a traditional distro by creating an alias package that prints a warning on install, but then you actually have to watch the install logs to see that.