Linux distributions have been including the major version in the name for a long time; when we started doing this at Red Hat I wrote down the rationale at http:

Linux distributions have been including the major version in the name for a long time; when we started doing this at Red Hat I wrote down the rationale at http://ometer.com/parallel.html http://ometer.com/parallel.html in order to convince upstream projects to do this upstream, as many now do. For non-system package managers like npm, always using a lockfile is the best current option IMO, for those package managers that support it. https://blog.ometer.com/2017/01/10/dear-package-managers-dependency-resolution-results-should-be-in-version-control/ https://blog.ometer.com/2017/01/10/dear-package-managers-dep...