[arthur_pryor]

> "Orthogonal" suggests no connection but what I see above is a list of package managers that don't have namespacing.

correlation does not equal causation.

how is it not apparent that typosquatting is possible regardless of whether namespacing is in play?

for example, URLs are namespaced, and are the classic example of typosquatting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting