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What are the possible consequences if I ignore ‘Package directive doesn’t match file location’ issue?

Outside an IDE it may confuse people… at usage site people wanting to navigate to the declaration may expect to find it at the directory implied by the package.

There are (in my view) valid use cases though: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40623>

IntelliJ has he concept of a “packagePrefix” so you can omit the directories that are common to all packages in a module; e.g. if you had a module `foo` where all packages are subpackages of `com.mycompany.myapp.foo` you can set the package prefix to that and then `com.mycompany.myapp.foo.Foo` can be in `src/main/kotlin/Foo.kt` rather than `src/main/kotlin/com/mycompany/myapp/foo/Foo.kt`.

You can set it in gradle as so <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-240235>