diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/quassel/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/quassel/default.nix
index 6aacdde544bca..6addd66ac6342 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/quassel/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/irc/quassel/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { monolithic ? true # build monolithic Quassel
-, daemon ? false # build Quassel daemon
+, enableDaemon ? false # build Quassel daemon
 , client ? false # build Quassel client
 , tag ? "-kf5" # tag added to the package name
 , static ? false # link statically
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@
 
 let
     buildClient = monolithic || client;
-    buildCore = monolithic || daemon;
+    buildCore = monolithic || enableDaemon;
 in
 
-assert monolithic -> !client && !daemon;
-assert client || daemon -> !monolithic;
+assert monolithic -> !client && !enableDaemon;
+assert client || enableDaemon -> !monolithic;
 assert !buildClient -> !withKDE; # KDE is used by the client only
 
 let
@@ -63,12 +63,12 @@ in with stdenv; mkDerivation rec {
   ]
     ++ edf static "STATIC"
     ++ edf monolithic "WANT_MONO"
-    ++ edf daemon "WANT_CORE"
+    ++ edf enableDaemon "WANT_CORE"
     ++ edf client "WANT_QTCLIENT"
     ++ edf withKDE "WITH_KDE";
 
   preFixup =
-    lib.optionalString daemon ''
+    lib.optionalString enableDaemon ''
         wrapProgram "$out/bin/quasselcore" --suffix PATH : "${qtbase.bin}/bin"
     '' +
     lib.optionalString buildClient ''
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/p2p/amule/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/p2p/amule/default.nix
index b9a4360abfb90..0a240248806d8 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/p2p/amule/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/p2p/amule/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { monolithic ? true # build monolithic amule
-, daemon ? false # build amule daemon
+, enableDaemon ? false # build amule daemon
 , httpServer ? false # build web interface for the daemon
 , client ? false # build amule remote gui
 , fetchurl, stdenv, zlib, wxGTK, perl, cryptopp, libupnp, gettext, libpng ? null
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ mkDerivation rec {
     "--disable-debug"
     "--enable-optimize"
     (stdenv.lib.enableFeature monolithic "monolithic")
-    (stdenv.lib.enableFeature daemon "amule-daemon")
+    (stdenv.lib.enableFeature enableDaemon "amule-daemon")
     (stdenv.lib.enableFeature client "amule-gui")
     (stdenv.lib.enableFeature httpServer "webserver")
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 02ab3c812b66d..c6a018f7f2b54 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ in
 
   amuleDaemon = appendToName "daemon" (amule.override {
     monolithic = false;
-    daemon = true;
+    enableDaemon = true;
   });
 
   amuleGui = appendToName "gui" (amule.override {
@@ -20192,7 +20192,7 @@ in
 
   quasselDaemon = quassel.override {
     monolithic = false;
-    daemon = true;
+    enableDaemon = true;
     withKDE = false;
     tag = "-daemon-qt5";
   };