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aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.38 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 889CFE142 X-Spam-Score: -2.38 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn1.migadu.com X-TUID: purElwe3VcZy Hi Tobias, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Mark H Weaver =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A >> 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=20 > excusable exceptions), but this wasn't explicitly documented=20 > anywhere I looked. 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 of related packages "r-*". 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. Thank you! Mark