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Docs: Change "Packages that wrap external libraries or programs should be named after those libraries or programs" to "Packages that wrap external libraries or programs can be named after those libraries or programs" (#53567)
Before this PR:
> Packages that wrap external libraries or programs should be named
after those libraries or programs.
I think that "should" is a little too strong.
After this PR:
> Packages that wrap external libraries or programs can be named after
those libraries or programs.
## Motivation
This might make it a bit easier to convince package authors that they
can use a longer more descriptive name for their package, instead of
needing to exactly match the name of the underlying software that they
are wrapping.
Suppose for example that someone is making a Julia package to wrap a
piece of software named `HW`. Under the "should be named..." guideline,
this would lead the package author to register a Julia package named
HW.jl. Personally I'd like to encourage longer and more descriptive
names. So, under the "can be named..." guideline, the author won't feel
like the Julia package needs to be named HW.jl, and thus they might be
more amenable to a longer name such as HelloWorld.jl.
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