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From: mikadoZero <mikadozero@yandex.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 34835-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:24:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4l86ucto.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sxj5d45.fsf@elephly.net>


Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> mikadoZero <mikadozero@yandex.com> 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.

Thanks

      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-13 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-12 21:48 bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package mikadoZero
2019-03-12 22:11 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-03-12 23:30   ` mikadoZero
2019-03-12 22:14 ` Leo Famulari
2019-03-12 23:37   ` mikadoZero
2019-03-13  9:37     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-13 13:24       ` mikadoZero [this message]

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