With functional package management (as in GNU Guix or Nix) you no longer have namespace clashes and packages can be added without too much concern for unrelated

With functional package management (as in GNU Guix or Nix) you no longer have namespace clashes and packages can be added without too much concern for unrelated packages. I find functional package management to be a vast improvement over the packaging situation --- unlike incarnations of the latest bundling/appification trend such as Snappy or Docker.