>>>>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Aaron W Swenson wrote:

> On 2017-11-27 10:54, Duncan wrote:
>> While there is no hard restriction on the length of short-name,
>> limiting it to 20 characters is strongly recommended.
>> 
>> [...]

> Does it matter if people notice the recommendation? Should it be its
> own paragraph for emphasis?

I guess that the devmanual section will be read more often, so I'll
prepare a patch for it when (and if) the GLEP changes are accepted:
https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/news/index.html

That it currently has just "name" rather than "very short name" (as in
the GLEP) doesn't help, I suppose.

Ulrich

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