Specifications
In October 2024 a team of dedicated developers has started work on the ALPM project. Since then it has been focusing on writing new documentation on many aspects of Arch Linux Package Management that were not thoroughly documented in the past. This article provides an overview of the specifications written by this project and attempts to contextualize them for the reader. The existing stack 📚 With its `bash` based `makepkg` tool for package creation, the libalpm C library for interfacing with system state and the central `pacman` package management tool, the pacman project has defined the …
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