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Jan 16, 2019 at 5:25 comment added 炸鱼薯条德里克 They can, they just don't. Using git to manage versions of packages would be too much overhead and the main functionality of git -- storing all the versions of your files -- is not actually needed by users of package manager, software packages management system can have that kind of functionality, but would just be considered as bonus.
Jan 14, 2019 at 22:56 answer added sourcejedi timeline score: 1
Jan 14, 2019 at 21:03 vote accept Verybeginner
Jan 14, 2019 at 19:38 comment added Christopher A package is a group of pre-configured files such as pre-compiled binaries, libraries, and/or supporting configuration files, etc. These are created by a package maintainer who may acquire original sources from git (or any other vcs or even a distribution method that isn't a vcs). This saves all of us the work of compiling all of our own applications and libraries and leverages skills of the maintainer.
Jan 14, 2019 at 19:26 comment added peterh Everything. What is the difference between format and mkdir? :-)
Jan 14, 2019 at 19:13 answer added Time4Tea timeline score: 12
Jan 14, 2019 at 19:08 answer added kemotep timeline score: 5
Jan 14, 2019 at 18:51 history edited Rui F Ribeiro CC BY-SA 4.0
software is an uncountable name
Jan 14, 2019 at 18:50 comment added shivams It's an interesting question, however it seems that you first need to understand the difference between software package manager and version control systems. They are fundamentally very different things.
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Jan 14, 2019 at 18:43 history asked Verybeginner CC BY-SA 4.0