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Sender	Message	Time
11 Jun 2023
K900	It would be cool to eventually end up with `python-modules/by-name` though	10:22:06
K900	And similar in other sets	10:22:10
hexa	certainly	10:22:17
K900	But we'll have to do that on a set by set basis I think	10:22:32
@piegames:matrix.org	I think that is mentioned in Future work	10:22:43
@syphoxy:matrix.org	how about this.. pkgs/A/B/${name}/package.nix everything that isn't part of the sharding stays in pkgs/ like where it is now. the one issue we came up with this is that short name packages become ambiguous but I'm pretty sure the ambiguous case only happens for 1 character package names. if you had a package "ab", that would result in pkgs/a/b/ab/package.nix. for the single letter packages, which in the most generous of circumstances would be at most 40, we could special case them in a folder pkgs/root/.	10:28:30
@syphoxy:matrix.org	even if we wanted to expand the sharding out to 3 or 4 levels, the ambiguous case would always be the 1 character package names because the shard .. key? is only 1 character long.	10:30:40
@syphoxy:matrix.org	that is, at any level of the sharding, we can distinguish the shard path from a package because packages must be more than 1 character long in length.	10:31:43