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(good). However, this does not cover cases like Gnome applications. For example, I submitted the original definition for (the GNOME terminal package) terminator, and later I tried to rename that gnome-terminator but that was rejected by reviewers. Or GNU Guix maintainers may want to consider some type of name space support in the package name space because I think name collisions will be more and more likely as more packages are submitted for inclusion in Guix.