[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 ou
Hi,
(CC: Ricardo since they is the master about R stuff. :-))
On Tue, 09 Mar 2021 at 19:44, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> We have one notable exception in Guix: "r", which is "grandfathered in"
> so-to-speak, but perhaps it would have been excusable anyway, given its
> prominence and its large number
Hi Mark & Tobias,
Mark H Weaver skribis:
> I fully support your proposal to talk about single-character names in
> the manual, and also to check for them in the linter, but perhaps "r"
> should be whitelisted.
Seconded on both points! The patches look great to me.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
Hi Tobias,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes:
> Mark H Weaver 写道：
>> Yesterday, an obscure package called "t" was added to Guix. We
>> should reject such short package names in Guix unless there's a very
>> compelling reason to keep them.
>
> I completely agree (in fact I can't compel myself to find
Mark H Weaver 写道：
Yesterday, an obscure package called "t" was added to Guix. We
should
reject such short package names in Guix unless there's a very
compelling
reason to keep them.
I completely agree (in fact I can't compel myself to find
excusable exceptions), but this wasn't explicitly d
