| 9 Jun 2023 |
 K900 | Now unstable-mypkg would | 19:24:35 |
| K900 | But that's a different story | 19:24:39 |
 infinisil | If we have a single directory containing all the shards then I don't think it needs to be sorted at the beginning. Or at least I wouldn't want to add a _ just for that | 19:24:51 |
 Robert Hensing (roberth) | Right, I think in a few cases we might have soft forks with different names though | 19:24:59 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | Also the other categories will wither away eventually | 19:25:21 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | I mean pkgs/* subdirs, to the point that there's like five want to keep perhaps | 19:25:42 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | at that point sorting isn't super relevant | 19:25:48 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | wouldn't want to be stuck with an underscore then | 19:26:02 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | What I don't like about by-prefix is that it focuses on the mechanism too much. People will understand it as relating to the two letter shard directories, which is not a useful concept | 19:26:47 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | I want everyone to think of sharding as a useless but necessary syntax-level concern that really doesn't matter for anything they care about | 19:27:18 |
| Robert Hensing (roberth) | Also I want the names that we do use to be meaningful, if at all possible. by-name carries more relevant meaning than by-prefix, because prefixes are a syntax level concern that has no bearing on the actual meaning of what we're declaring in those files | 19:28:37 |
