An arbitrary number of aliases is useful in a number of ways.
For example you mention wanting to register an OPAL MCA parameter and
later alias it as an OMPI MCA parameter. What if we also wanted to
alias it as an ORTE level parameter. The best example I can think of
is the TCP include/excl
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Subject: Re: [devel-core] [RFC] Add an alias name to MCA parameter
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