🐞 Need a way to have an alias to another package without having to create an is_fake package

[satmandu]

It would be useful to have name aliases for packages so that we don't have to create an is_fake package for renamed packages.

[satmandu]

Maybe some sort of package aliases constants file in lib?

It would be useful for PRs like #8391

Thoughts @supechicken @uberhacker

[supechicken]

Something like #5069? I can refactor that PR if needed :)

[satmandu]

@supechicken I liked @uberhacker 's comment about an alias list needing to be outside crew.

I do like the idea of having aka functionality in the package file. That's what arch uses in their pkgbuilds.

[satmandu]

But there is also a lot of plumbing inside crew dependent upon the idea of one package... one package file. There's certainly almost a Plan 9 elegance of relying on the filesystem for this. Could we use filesystem aliases in the package dir?

[supechicken]

Symlink might be a good idea for this...