From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: 05/15: gnu: wesnoth: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth. Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:59:17 +0100 Message-ID: <877ecj2zvu.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20190326131842.7363.84034@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190326131844.C73EC209E3@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87imw4fuee.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2aso7zh.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87mulg2whj.fsf@elephly.net> <878sx0xo9v.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> 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]:49974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h9QBa-0002n0-75 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 04:14:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h9QBZ-0003RT-9D for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 04:14:54 -0400 Received: from sender.zoho.com ([135.84.80.194]:21291 helo=sender-of-o51.zoho.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h9QBY-0003Qw-Lc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2019 04:14:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <878sx0xo9v.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> The package name is just an identifier for command line interaction >> purposes. > > I don't see it this way. The package name is a global variable in the > Guix project, and it bears a global semantic value. It's used as a > public identifier that has to meaningfully convey the content of the pack= age > to the developers but also to the users. Package names and variable names are two different things. I disagree with the last sentence, obviously. >> There is no reason why it should be descriptive =E2=80=93 after all, >> that=E2=80=99s what the package description is used for. Users can easi= ly find >> the package they are interested in by using the search feature. > > Sadly the search feature is even less accessible than bash completion. > It's slower and more demanding to use. Let=E2=80=99s fix that then and make it faster. (I think it=E2=80=99s pret= ty good already and it=E2=80=99s how I find packages, not by trying out names.) In the future, let=E2=80=99s please refrain from renames before a consensus= has been reached. It would also be good to show the concrete changes on the list before pushing them. Thanks! --=20 Ricardo