Custom plugins that share names with ones in the Plugin Store have name/update collisions

[aaronbushnell]

Description

There are times we build a custom plugin for a client and don't intend to publish this to the Plugin Store. For instance, I may create a simple "Twitter" or "Weather" plugin. However, if there's already a "Twitter" or "Weather" plugin in the Plugin Store then I see the updates for that plugin in the "Updates" section of the control panel.

The same goes for the "Plugin" page. If I click the icon for the custom "Twitter" plugin it takes me to the Twitter plugin that currently exists in the Plugin Store.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a "Twitter" plugin using the Plugin Factory generator and ensure you set the version to 1.0.0
2. Add it into a plugins directory in your Craft project
3. Add the following to your composer.json:

"repositories": [
    {
      "type": "path",
      "url": "path/to/plugins/*"
    }
  ]

4. Run composer require authorName/twitter
5. Go to Utilities > Updates within the control panel
6. You'll see the changelog for the actual "Twitter" plugin in the Plugin Store

Additional info

• Craft version: 3.1.6.1
• PHP version: 7.3.1
• Database driver & version: MySQL 5.7.25

[brandonkelly]

Duplicate of #3054 - see the discussion there.

[aaronbushnell]

Ah, sounds like I oughta be utilizing Modules in place of Plugins to avoid this. Thanks, @brandonkelly!