Subject: bug#47028: Discourage single-character package names

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 10:57:24 +0200

[Inexcusably breaking thread because I lost the original.]

Mark,

> We have one notable exception in Guix: "r", which is 
> "grandfathered
> in" so-to-speak [...]

Very good point.  So grandfathered it didn't occur to me.

> [...] perhaps "r"should be whitelisted.

I agree.  Thanks for pointing it out!

T G-R