David,

you can only ever have one version (what you call "unique identifier")
of a package installed. What you see in /var/cache/apt/archives is just
a temporary download place where apt and other package tools download
packages to before they get installed. This directory generally has
multiple versions of a package (you can use "apt-get autoclean" to get
rid of older ones and free some space).

Uninstalling a package with "apt-get remove" does not remove the
downloaded .deb package from the cache.

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