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.

  • hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    You are right, but I do want to point at that “library” is based on the Latin word librarium which literally translates to “a place for books”.