Only a subset of the functionality provided by this library
turned out to be useful. Those parts have been moved to the
elx library.
Packed provides some package manager agnostic utilities to work with Emacs Lisp packages. As far as Packed is concerned packages are collections of Emacs Lisp libraries that are stored in a dedicated directory such as a Git repository. And libraries are Emacs Lisp files that provide the correct feature (matching the filename).
Where a package manager might depend on metadata, Packed instead uses some heuristics to get the same information — that is slower and might also fail at times but makes it unnecessary to maintain package recipes.