True. There’s… a lot to unpack with this.
Package Management is weird.
jcorvera
An asexual bigender libertarian socialist and Episcopalian operating out of the Heartland of the US. I love free and liberating operating systems of all sorts.
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Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Arch, GuixSD, NixOS, Slack, Gentoo, LFS, and I want to say… Knoppix?
rpm/dpkg is the package format. apt/dnf/zypper is the system that downloads, unarchives, and moves files into place.
It’s been a long time, so I could be misremembering.
If that’s the case, then Tiny Core or Damn Small to replace it.