[opam-devel] opam publish package name

[Amir Chaudhry]

> On 19 Aug 2015, at 11:18, Louis Gesbert <louis.gesbert at ocamlpro.com> wrote:
> 
>> Another possibility would be to have aliases for builtins, and allow
>> to override their default names: for example, if I type "opam search
>> XXX", opam would first call "opam-search", and only if it does not
>> exist, call the builtin. Then "opam-search" would be able to call
>> "opam builtins search XXX" to access the builtin command with enhanced
>> parameters...
> 
> That sounds dangerous ;)
> There is at the moment a check that specifically disables plugins named like a known command. The above could be quite straight-forward to implement, but I don't clearly see a use-case.

I think this kind of ‘shadowing’ can be confusing for users and end up making bug reports more complex to handle.