Subject: bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:37:30 +0100

mikadoZero <[email-masked]> writes:

> Is it common for the Scheme variable to be different from the package
> name?  What benefit is there to it being different compared to it being
> the same?

It is not very common, but sometimes it is necessary (in the case of
“gnu-gettext”), and sometimes it is merely convenient.

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Ricardo