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bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:37:30 +0100
User-agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1

mikadoZero <address@hidden> 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
“gnu-gettext”), and sometimes it is merely convenient.

--
Ricardo






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