Question: Why not *-stubs but types-* in typeshed?

[eggplants]

As the title says. Is the reason simply to make a distinction?

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Ref:

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installed_packages.html#using-installed-packages-with-mypy-pep-561

As many packages don’t support type checking yet, you may also have to install a separate stub package, usually named types-<library>.

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installed_packages.html#creating-pep-561-compatible-packages

If the package is stub-only (not imported at runtime), the package should have a prefix of the runtime package name and a suffix of -stubs.

[hauntsaninja]

Most of this history here is on #2491
I seem to remember one consideration was PyPA creating namespaces in the future, which is why we went with a prefix.

[eggplants]

Thank you for your answer!