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by cjbprime 2559 days ago
Usually the motivation is that the federated package names are much longer than the centralized short package names.
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bdcravens 2559 days ago
Eliminating short names as a value hopefully will encourage more semantic names instead of cute words that are entirely non-descriptive.
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Boulth 2559 days ago
Much longer is, I guess, a matter of taste. For example the package name "go.uber.org/zap" [0] looks quite short to me.

[0]: https://godoc.org/go.uber.org/zap

Not to mention that short names get depleted eventually and one needs to use longer names then anyway (see npm namespaces).

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andy_ppp 2559 days ago
Or even end up with low quality generic defaults for things like routing in react because someone got the default name of say the routing library.
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mstade 2559 days ago
Presumably, if you really want short names, a local hosts like config with aliased names would do the job just fine. This has the added benefit that everyone can have their own aliases.
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cjbprime 2559 days ago
No, I think the attraction to centralization is not only that it can provide short names, but that it can provide short names that everyone agrees on the meaning of.
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WorldMaker 2559 days ago
Which is a fascinating echo of the arguments between proponents of AOL Keywords and DNS.
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