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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 16:25:40 -0500
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 19219@debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 04:55:40PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:16:31 -0500
> > Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:45:14PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> >>  [...]  
> >>  [...]  
> >>  [...]  
> >>  [...]  
> >>  [...]  
> >>  [...]  
> >> > 
> >> > I'm OK with that.  Since choosing the reserved characters is not a
> >> > technical decision, maybe we could poll users?  
> >> 
> >> I think we should poll a big list of packages and see which characters
> >> are most safe to use.
> >> 
> >> The question is: which big list? Debian's?
> >> 
> >> 
> >  
> > When debian adopted multiarch 
> 
> [...]
> 
> I forgot to reply to Leo’s message, but it seems clear to me that it
> only makes sense to discuss on Guix mailing lists.  I don’t think anyone
> else cares about the syntax of Guix’s command-line interface.  ;-)

I don't mean that we should discuss it on Debian's mailing list. I mean
that we should consult the largest list of packages that we can find in
order to learn which characters are safest to choose as reserved. Debian
has a very long list of packages.

> 
> Ludo’.