[Nix-dev] Reconsidering dash in package names

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 10 October 2014 22:56, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I don't understand. Why/when do we need bash variable _identifiers_
named like packages (with dashes)? And what values would those
"package name variables" contain?

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman