> Yes, me too.  And they would need to be put in place if we want to import
> Magnar Sveen's dash.el library (which uses that prefix), or any of the many

I'm not sure why but it seems that people really like to forget that
`dash.el` is already in GNU ELPA.

So here's yet another reminder that:

    `dash.el` is already in GNU ELPA.