# Are extension packages importable?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-extension-packages-importable/92527>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package-extensions\
**Created:** [January 4, 2023, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-extension-packages-importable/92527 "2023-01-04T21:15:14Z")\
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Well yes, but I do think that best practices should be to make the functionality exposed by overloading functions in the parent. It can even be a zero method function that is overloaded. So you would not need to access the namespace of the extension.

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