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by viperscape 3725 days ago
I really see no good reason not to employ namespacing with immutable packages. If a package is dropped, all is well still. If readoption is needed, people can use the new package, similarly named. It obviously also allows for similar but different named packages to exist, which I don't see as a problem. I can usually find the top repo on github for instance, even with multiple forks. I worry about Rust since they have decided against namespacing, even though some suggested otherwise, early on..