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Better explain how namespaces relate to deps

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the Learn namespaces guide and the namespaces reference page named in the issue, then trace how namespaces reach the classpath through Clojure, application code, and libraries. Done means both pages clearly connect namespace usage with those classpath sources.

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https://clojure.org/guides/learn/namespaces and https://clojure.org/reference/namespaces have differently focused overviews of namespaces but leave out the linkage to how namespaces end up on the classpath (either via Clojure itself or your code or via libs). These should pages should connect those dots better.

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