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This is just a curiousity
Is it possible to make a package which you can only access by having the actual gensym symbol?

Something like:
(setf *var* (gensym))
(make-package *var* :use '(:cl))

accept this doesn't work, because you can still access the package by the string name of the gensymed variable.

A package name is a string, as specified by 11.1.1.1. You can even use literal string as an argument to defpackage/make-package (or even a character). When you use a symbol it is used just for its name, it doesn't matter what the symbol actually is.

Thats what i suspected. Oh well, its still simple to create unique package names