Core's configuration install API prevents enabling an extension that provides any configuration item that already exists on the site.
This behaviour is a sensible default, but there are certain use cases it interferes with, including:
Introduce a configurable option to allow reprovision of configuration.
TBD: in the case that configuration is reprovided, what of the following is the expected default?
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