The evolution of package managers
Steve Ovens (Alumni, Red Hat)
How was software on Linux installed before package managers? What is a package? What is a software repository? Software repositories are a centralized listing of all of the available software for any repository the system has been configured to use. Arch also uses repositories similar to other package managers.
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