Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> guile@1.8 >>> guile@1.8:doc >>> >>> I’m not sure if we should also allow: >>> >>> guile:doc@1.8 >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> I'm OK with that. Since choosing the reserved characters is not a >> technical decision, maybe we could poll users? > > Yes, why not (bikeshedding ahead! :-)). Would you like to email > guix-devel about it? > > Note that it only affects the CLI. The Emacs and Web UIs won’t see any > difference. > > Ludo’.
If the @ is for the optional choice of including a version, I'm good with it. It does mean we can never have @ in our package names, but that might be a good restriction anyway :) Anyway, I like it, since it's for command-line only.