[nishs]

by namespace do you roughly mean package?

[nilslindemann]

I mean spaces where we put things belonging to a name. When I look at the bin folder on my system, I am mostly: "what the heck are these?" If each of these binaries were in a folder, for example "Python" (that's the namespace), together with their sources, configuration, documentation, etc., I could easily explore this small aspect of the system.

[nishs]

some linux distributions, such as GoboLinux (which, i think, was mentioned elsewhere in the comments, too), do this.

from gobolinux.org:

> GoboLinux is a modular Linux distribution: it organizes the programs in your system in a new, logical way. Instead of having parts of a program thrown at /usr/bin, other parts at /etc and yet more parts thrown at /usr/share/something/or/another, each program gets its own directory tree, keeping them all neatly separated and allowing you to see everything that's installed in the system and which files belong to which programs in a simple and obvious way.