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  • It might be better to first learn about existing package managers: build some packages for rpm, apt, pac…etc.

    The fundamentals would be easier to understand from there to figure out what you actually want to write and why.

    At their core, packages are simply just bundles of flat files, and stages of scripts that get executed. That’s it. Like a zip file with scripts.

    Package Managers on the other hand are just clients that deal with the metadata and contents of packages and decide what to do with them. They go way deeper.