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How about a Levenshtein distance threshold for new package names to be accepted? I.e only allow names that are different enough from the existing set to avoid t
by mwerty 9y ago
How about a Levenshtein distance threshold for new package names to be accepted? I.e only allow names that are different enough from the existing set to avoid typos (or whatever errors we are trying to guard against)?
- andrewfong 9y agoYou don't need a strict ban for this to work either. Maybe just an end-user warning if distance < N and the relative popularity of the two modules is very high. You could also allow users or organizations to explicitly whitelist some names.