Question

I run into the problem of clashing automatic related names, and often having a foreign manager installed on the related model is not needed.

For example, it would be great if i could:

class ExtraWidgetThingy(models.Model):
    product = models.ForeignKey("product.Product")
    also_tastes_good_with = models.ForeignKey(
        "product.Product", related_name=None)

instead of related_name='extrawidgetthingys_that_also_tastes_good_with_this'

Answer 1

From the docs:

If you’d prefer Django didn’t create a backwards relation, set related_name to '+'.