From the above stems that no special package databases can be maintained. Instead, all bookkeeping and setup information should be represented by per-package files, for what adequate conventions should be elaborated. Or even is some do, it's not easy to get knowledge of this. Also, package manager under development seems to bother maintaining some databases, while I consider that superfluous. It is naturally to provide more general methods for specifying such properties.
Package is the set of files, distributed across directories.
On the top level, only directories are permitted. Package information directory One of the mandatory top-level directory is directory ' manifest ' which must contain package description files. No field except first is mandatory. Trailing unspecified fields may be stripped. Size in bytes.