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| 2026-01-12 |
Progress on the Arch Linux Package Management project |
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A topic which came up recently on the Arch Linux Dev Blog was the progress being made on a set of tools used for package creation and management. The new tools, called Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM), are written in Rust and designed to provide secure libraries which will aid in all elements of package management. ALPM is not itself a package manager (like the pacman tool which is used by Arch Linux), but it provides libraries and structures for creating new package managers and build tools. "The scope of this project is to provide robust integration for all relevant package creation and consumption, as well as repository management tasks. As such, the ALPM project also aims at providing drop-in replacements or alternatives for some facilities provided by pacman." In other words, ALPM is not itself a front-end package manager, like pacman, but it could be used to create a new package manager which could be an alternative to pacman in the future.
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