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Subject: bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:37:12 -0400
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To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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Leo Famulari writes:
> The package is named 'iproute2' but the Scheme variable, which is what
> %base-packages is a list of, is named 'iproute'.

Thank you for the clarification.

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?