GNU bug report logs - #47028
Discourage single-character package names

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:40:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, 47028 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47028: Discourage single-character package names
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
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