On http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/pk...:

> Symlink Style Package Management

For this I highly recommend https://zolk3ri.name/cgit/zpkg/ which I have been using for years now. It works wonderfully.

Environment variables and their defaults:

    ZPKG_SRC = ~/.local/pkg
    ZPKG_DST = ~/.local
    ZPKG_DB = ~/.db

It means that if you install anything from scratch, you have to `make install` (or the like, depending on the build system) it to, say, `~/.local/pkg/foo-1.0` and then run `zpkg link foo:1.0` to install (i.e. link) the "package". After that you just have to make sure you have added `~/.local/bin` to your `PATH` environment variable, and `~/.local/man` to your `MANPATH` environment variable (in your `~/.bash_profile` file). Seems to do the job. It does lack a README file for which I may contact the author. In any case, `zpkg --help` should be of tremendous help.

By the way, I have noticed that someone created a package manager with the same name, but its initial commit was in 2019, while this one's was in 2017.