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Just to add to this, since I stumpled upon it today:

AFAIK it is also possible to have multiple nodes with the same name in different packages if you are not building with catkin_make, but instead with catkin_make_isolated or catkin_tools, since with these tools every package has it's own build space. That way you will also not have to apply the workaround @ahendrix suggested.

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