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.


The term library in the context of software predates software repositories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_(computing)
It’s basically as old as the computer itself.
Literal libraries of punch cards.