[Nix-dev] Reconsidering dash in package names
Luca Bruno
lethalman88 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 22:56:13 CEST 2014
Dash in package names are cool, because they map to the real package name.
However I just found a breaker: bash does not support variables with dash.
$foo-bar or ${foo-bar} or whatever does not work.
Shall we reconsider the use of dash and prefer the underscore instead for
package names?
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