Today's software tools have weird names. We call a "library" some collection of functions that you can use in your program.

I think that software repositories (where apt downloads your programs from) should be the actual libraries, since that's where you go to get your information; Meanwhile individual packages of information should be called books because they are one solid object containing a bundle of information.

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[–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

books is a specific type. library is just a different word for collection. So calling them books would be wrong. Because library does not imply a book. In example you can have a library of videos or a library of images.

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