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# About

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[PkgForge](https://github.com/pkgforge) provides portable packages and static binaries for Linux, and builds [Soar](/soar/readme.md), the package manager that installs them.

The two are deliberately separate. Soar reads a metadata index and installs what it finds; it does not build or host anything. [soarpkgs](/repositories/soarpkgs.md) produces that index from a tree of declarative package definitions. Either side can be replaced without the other, which is why [running your own repository](/repositories/external.md) is a supported thing to do rather than a fork.

* [PkgForge-Dev](/orgs/pkgforge-dev.md), development and experimental projects
* [History](/orgs/readme/history.md), how the project got here