Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: devil

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I worry that choosing "devil-keys" as the package identifier is going
  > to make the identifier inconsistent with how Devil is packaged in
  > MELPA.

Compatibility with MELPA is not one of our goals.  It is not a reason
to choose a suboptimal way of doing things.

  > Consider the popular package meow. It is a fairly recent
  > package that was created in 2020 and added in December 2022. It exists
  > with the name "meow" in NonGNU ELPA. People who do not know about it
  > of course do not know about it. But people who do know about it do not
  > get confused about what it does.

That's what generally happens with a package whose name gives no
guide: people who regularly use the package know what it does, and
others have no idea.

The reason to choose a name that tells something about the package is
to get a better outcome than that.

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