From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:37:30 +0100 Message-ID: <878sxj5d45.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20190312221412.GA14844@jasmine.lan> <7ed3u0k7.fsf@yandex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:57604) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h40ZL-0007Ff-Sf for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 05:53:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h40ZL-0008DT-6Y for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 05:53:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h40ZK-0008DH-KE for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 05:53:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h40ZK-0000vp-F2 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 05:53:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <7ed3u0k7.fsf@yandex.com> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: mikadoZero Cc: 34835-done@debbugs.gnu.org mikadoZero 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 =E2=80=9Cgnu-gettext=E2=80=9D), and sometimes it is merely convenient. -- Ricardo