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Re:A checklist of things to consider before releasing your p... by adontz on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:26AM (#19430555)
Don’t worry too much about choosing a name and having a package with that name already take. If your project becomes more popular than the project that has taken the name already, the owner of the package will usually give you the package name if not too many people are depending on it

WUT?!

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Re:A checklist of things to consider before releasing your p... by amilajack on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:29PM (#19443805)
Yup, this is true. Flow, yarn, parcel, and glow are examples of projects which took ownership of existing package names.
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