diff --git a/archinstall/lib/boot.py b/archinstall/lib/boot.py
index 4f3d1bde..f907522c 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/boot.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/boot.py
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ from collections.abc import Iterator
 from types import TracebackType
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, ClassVar, Self
 
-from .command import SysCommand, SysCommandWorker
+from .command import SysCommand, SysCommandWorker, locate_binary
 from .exceptions import SysCallError
-from .general import locate_binary
 from .output import error
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/command.py b/archinstall/lib/command.py
index 37050390..439ed665 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/command.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/command.py
@@ -6,12 +6,13 @@ import sys
 import time
 from collections.abc import Iterator
 from select import EPOLLHUP, EPOLLIN, epoll
+from shutil import which
 from types import TracebackType
 from typing import Any, Self, override
 
-from archinstall.lib.exceptions import SysCallError
-from archinstall.lib.general import clear_vt100_escape_codes, locate_binary
+from archinstall.lib.exceptions import RequirementError, SysCallError
 from archinstall.lib.output import debug, error, logger
+from archinstall.lib.utils.encoding import clear_vt100_escape_codes
 
 
 class SysCommandWorker:
@@ -345,6 +346,12 @@ def run(
 	)
 
 
+def locate_binary(name: str) -> str:
+	if path := which(name):
+		return path
+	raise RequirementError(f'Binary {name} does not exist.')
+
+
 def _pid_exists(pid: int) -> bool:
 	try:
 		return any(subprocess.check_output(['ps', '--no-headers', '-o', 'pid', '-p', str(pid)]).strip())
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/disk/fido.py b/archinstall/lib/disk/fido.py
index 040fd1bb..73180b12 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/disk/fido.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/disk/fido.py
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from typing import ClassVar
 
 from archinstall.lib.models.device import Fido2Device
+from archinstall.lib.utils.encoding import clear_vt100_escape_codes_from_str
 
 from ..command import SysCommand, SysCommandWorker
 from ..exceptions import SysCallError
-from ..general import clear_vt100_escape_codes_from_str
 from ..models.users import Password
 from ..output import error, info
 
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/general.py b/archinstall/lib/general.py
index 3fd60506..15651497 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/general.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/general.py
@@ -1,18 +1,29 @@
 import json
-import re
-import secrets
-import string
 from datetime import date, datetime
 from enum import Enum
+from functools import lru_cache
 from pathlib import Path
-from shutil import which
 from typing import Any, override
 
-from archinstall.lib.exceptions import RequirementError
+from archinstall.lib.packages.packages import check_package_upgrade
 
-# https://stackoverflow.com/a/43627833/929999
-_VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX = r'\x1B\[[?0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]'
-_VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX_BYTES = _VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX.encode()
+from .output import debug
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=128)
+def check_version_upgrade() -> str | None:
+	debug('Checking version')
+	upgrade = None
+
+	upgrade = check_package_upgrade('archinstall')
+
+	if upgrade is None:
+		debug('No archinstall upgrades found')
+		return None
+
+	debug(f'Archinstall latest: {upgrade}')
+
+	return upgrade
 
 
 def running_from_host() -> bool:
@@ -26,25 +37,6 @@ def running_from_host() -> bool:
 	return is_host
 
 
-def generate_password(length: int = 64) -> str:
-	haystack = string.printable  # digits, ascii_letters, punctuation (!"#$[] etc) and whitespace
-	return ''.join(secrets.choice(haystack) for _ in range(length))
-
-
-def locate_binary(name: str) -> str:
-	if path := which(name):
-		return path
-	raise RequirementError(f'Binary {name} does not exist.')
-
-
-def clear_vt100_escape_codes(data: bytes) -> bytes:
-	return re.sub(_VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX_BYTES, b'', data)
-
-
-def clear_vt100_escape_codes_from_str(data: str) -> str:
-	return re.sub(_VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX, '', data)
-
-
 def jsonify(obj: Any, safe: bool = True) -> Any:
 	"""
 	Converts objects into json.dumps() compatible nested dictionaries.
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/global_menu.py b/archinstall/lib/global_menu.py
index 6b8ca04e..429e77f6 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/global_menu.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/global_menu.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from archinstall.lib.models.application import ApplicationConfiguration, ZramCon
 from archinstall.lib.models.authentication import AuthenticationConfiguration
 from archinstall.lib.models.device import DiskLayoutConfiguration, DiskLayoutType, FilesystemType, PartitionModification
 from archinstall.lib.network.network_menu import ask_to_configure_network
-from archinstall.lib.packages import list_available_packages
+from archinstall.lib.packages.packages import ask_additional_packages_to_install, list_available_packages
 from archinstall.tui.ui.menu_item import MenuItem, MenuItemGroup
 
 from .applications.application_menu import ApplicationMenu
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ from .configuration import save_config
 from .hardware import SysInfo
 from .interactions.general_conf import (
 	add_number_of_parallel_downloads,
-	ask_additional_packages_to_install,
 	ask_for_a_timezone,
 	ask_hostname,
 	ask_ntp,
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/installer.py b/archinstall/lib/installer.py
index 7060acbd..b245ff5f 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/installer.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/installer.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ from archinstall.lib.models.device import (
 	Unit,
 )
 from archinstall.lib.models.packages import Repository
-from archinstall.lib.packages import installed_package
+from archinstall.lib.packages.packages import installed_package
 from archinstall.lib.translationhandler import tr
 
 from .args import arch_config_handler
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/interactions/__init__.py b/archinstall/lib/interactions/__init__.py
index a9b527d9..bec4350a 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/interactions/__init__.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/interactions/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ from .disk_conf import (
 )
 from .general_conf import (
 	add_number_of_parallel_downloads,
-	ask_additional_packages_to_install,
 	ask_for_a_timezone,
 	ask_hostname,
 	ask_ntp,
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ from .system_conf import ask_for_swap, select_driver, select_kernel
 
 __all__ = [
 	'add_number_of_parallel_downloads',
-	'ask_additional_packages_to_install',
 	'ask_for_a_timezone',
 	'ask_for_swap',
 	'ask_hostname',
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/interactions/general_conf.py b/archinstall/lib/interactions/general_conf.py
index 5de6d5b0..39d83e38 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/interactions/general_conf.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/interactions/general_conf.py
@@ -2,16 +2,13 @@ import sys
 from enum import Enum
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from archinstall.lib.menu.helpers import Confirmation, Input, Loading, Notify, Selection
-from archinstall.lib.models.packages import Repository
-from archinstall.lib.packages.packages import list_available_packages
+from archinstall.lib.menu.helpers import Confirmation, Input, Selection
 from archinstall.lib.translationhandler import tr
 from archinstall.tui.ui.menu_item import MenuItem, MenuItemGroup
 from archinstall.tui.ui.result import ResultType
 
 from ..locale.utils import list_timezones
-from ..models.packages import AvailablePackage, PackageGroup
-from ..output import debug, warn
+from ..output import warn
 from ..translationhandler import Language
 
 
@@ -132,87 +129,6 @@ def select_archinstall_language(languages: list[Language], preset: Language) ->
 			raise ValueError('Language selection not handled')
 
 
-def ask_additional_packages_to_install(
-	preset: list[str] = [],
-	repositories: set[Repository] = set(),
-) -> list[str]:
-	repositories |= {Repository.Core, Repository.Extra}
-
-	respos_text = ', '.join(r.value for r in repositories)
-	output = tr('Repositories: {}').format(respos_text) + '\n'
-	output += tr('Loading packages...')
-
-	result = Loading[dict[str, AvailablePackage]](
-		header=output,
-		data_callback=lambda: list_available_packages(tuple(repositories)),
-	).show()
-
-	if result.type_ != ResultType.Selection:
-		debug('Error while loading packages')
-		return preset
-
-	packages = result.get_value()
-
-	if not packages:
-		Notify(tr('No packages found')).show()
-		return []
-
-	package_groups = PackageGroup.from_available_packages(packages)
-
-	# Additional packages (with some light weight error handling for invalid package names)
-	header = tr('Only packages such as base, sudo, linux, linux-firmware, efibootmgr and optional profile packages are installed.') + '\n'
-	header += tr('Note: base-devel is no longer installed by default. Add it here if you need build tools.') + '\n'
-	header += tr('Select any packages from the below list that should be installed additionally') + '\n'
-
-	# there are over 15k packages so this needs to be quick
-	preset_packages: list[AvailablePackage | PackageGroup] = []
-	for p in preset:
-		if p in packages:
-			preset_packages.append(packages[p])
-		elif p in package_groups:
-			preset_packages.append(package_groups[p])
-
-	items = [
-		MenuItem(
-			name,
-			value=pkg,
-			preview_action=lambda x: x.value.info() if x.value else None,
-		)
-		for name, pkg in packages.items()
-	]
-
-	items += [
-		MenuItem(
-			name,
-			value=group,
-			preview_action=lambda x: x.value.info() if x.value else None,
-		)
-		for name, group in package_groups.items()
-	]
-
-	menu_group = MenuItemGroup(items, sort_items=True)
-	menu_group.set_selected_by_value(preset_packages)
-
-	pck_result = Selection[AvailablePackage | PackageGroup](
-		menu_group,
-		header=header,
-		allow_reset=True,
-		allow_skip=True,
-		multi=True,
-		preview_location='right',
-		enable_filter=True,
-	).show()
-
-	match pck_result.type_:
-		case ResultType.Skip:
-			return preset
-		case ResultType.Reset:
-			return []
-		case ResultType.Selection:
-			selected_pacakges = pck_result.get_values()
-			return [pkg.name for pkg in selected_pacakges]
-
-
 def add_number_of_parallel_downloads(preset: int = 1) -> int | None:
 	max_recommended = 5
 
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/luks.py b/archinstall/lib/luks.py
index fc7bca90..86acf537 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/luks.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/luks.py
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ from types import TracebackType
 
 from archinstall.lib.disk.utils import get_lsblk_info, umount
 from archinstall.lib.models.device import DEFAULT_ITER_TIME
+from archinstall.lib.utils.util import generate_password
 
 from .command import SysCommand, SysCommandWorker, run
 from .exceptions import DiskError, SysCallError
-from .general import generate_password
 from .models.users import Password
 from .output import debug, info
 
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/output.py b/archinstall/lib/output.py
index 6d2e9e46..310f02fd 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/output.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/output.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from enum import Enum
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
-from .utils.unicode import unicode_ljust, unicode_rjust
+from .utils.encoding import unicode_ljust, unicode_rjust
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
 	from _typeshed import DataclassInstance
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py b/archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py
index 83ed8e40..e69de29b 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-from .packages import installed_package, list_available_packages
-
-__all__ = [
-	'installed_package',
-	'list_available_packages',
-]
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py b/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
index d95ec6ed..da9d4740 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
@@ -1,29 +1,16 @@
 from functools import lru_cache
 
+from archinstall.lib.menu.helpers import Loading, Notify, Selection
+from archinstall.lib.models.packages import AvailablePackage, LocalPackage, PackageGroup, Repository
+from archinstall.lib.translationhandler import tr
+from archinstall.tui.ui.menu_item import MenuItem, MenuItemGroup
+from archinstall.tui.ui.result import ResultType
+
 from ..exceptions import SysCallError
-from ..models.packages import AvailablePackage, LocalPackage, Repository
 from ..output import debug
 from ..pacman.pacman import Pacman
 
 
-# TODO: This shouldn't be living in here but there are too many
-# circular dependecies so they will need to be cleanup up first
-@lru_cache(maxsize=128)
-def check_version_upgrade() -> str | None:
-	debug('Checking version')
-	upgrade = None
-
-	upgrade = check_package_upgrade('archinstall')
-
-	if upgrade is None:
-		debug('No archinstall upgrades found')
-		return None
-
-	debug(f'Archinstall latest: {upgrade}')
-
-	return upgrade
-
-
 def installed_package(package: str) -> LocalPackage | None:
 	try:
 		package_info = []
@@ -96,3 +83,84 @@ def _parse_package_output[PackageType: (AvailablePackage, LocalPackage)](
 			package[key] = value.strip()
 
 	return cls.model_validate(package)
+
+
+def ask_additional_packages_to_install(
+	preset: list[str] = [],
+	repositories: set[Repository] = set(),
+) -> list[str]:
+	repositories |= {Repository.Core, Repository.Extra}
+
+	respos_text = ', '.join(r.value for r in repositories)
+	output = tr('Repositories: {}').format(respos_text) + '\n'
+	output += tr('Loading packages...')
+
+	result = Loading[dict[str, AvailablePackage]](
+		header=output,
+		data_callback=lambda: list_available_packages(tuple(repositories)),
+	).show()
+
+	if result.type_ != ResultType.Selection:
+		debug('Error while loading packages')
+		return preset
+
+	packages = result.get_value()
+
+	if not packages:
+		Notify(tr('No packages found')).show()
+		return []
+
+	package_groups = PackageGroup.from_available_packages(packages)
+
+	# Additional packages (with some light weight error handling for invalid package names)
+	header = tr('Only packages such as base, sudo, linux, linux-firmware, efibootmgr and optional profile packages are installed.') + '\n'
+	header += tr('Note: base-devel is no longer installed by default. Add it here if you need build tools.') + '\n'
+	header += tr('Select any packages from the below list that should be installed additionally') + '\n'
+
+	# there are over 15k packages so this needs to be quick
+	preset_packages: list[AvailablePackage | PackageGroup] = []
+	for p in preset:
+		if p in packages:
+			preset_packages.append(packages[p])
+		elif p in package_groups:
+			preset_packages.append(package_groups[p])
+
+	items = [
+		MenuItem(
+			name,
+			value=pkg,
+			preview_action=lambda x: x.value.info() if x.value else None,
+		)
+		for name, pkg in packages.items()
+	]
+
+	items += [
+		MenuItem(
+			name,
+			value=group,
+			preview_action=lambda x: x.value.info() if x.value else None,
+		)
+		for name, group in package_groups.items()
+	]
+
+	menu_group = MenuItemGroup(items, sort_items=True)
+	menu_group.set_selected_by_value(preset_packages)
+
+	pck_result = Selection[AvailablePackage | PackageGroup](
+		menu_group,
+		header=header,
+		allow_reset=True,
+		allow_skip=True,
+		multi=True,
+		preview_location='right',
+		enable_filter=True,
+	).show()
+
+	match pck_result.type_:
+		case ResultType.Skip:
+			return preset
+		case ResultType.Reset:
+			return []
+		case ResultType.Selection:
+			selected_pacakges = pck_result.get_values()
+			return [pkg.name for pkg in selected_pacakges]
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/utils/unicode.py b/archinstall/lib/utils/encoding.py
similarity index 76%
rename from archinstall/lib/utils/unicode.py
rename to archinstall/lib/utils/encoding.py
index 402c14a5..53300b19 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/utils/unicode.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/utils/encoding.py
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
+import re
 import unicodedata
 from functools import lru_cache
 
+# https://stackoverflow.com/a/43627833/929999
+_VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX = r'\x1B\[[?0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]'
+_VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX_BYTES = _VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX.encode()
+
+
+def clear_vt100_escape_codes(data: bytes) -> bytes:
+	return re.sub(_VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX_BYTES, b'', data)
+
+
+def clear_vt100_escape_codes_from_str(data: str) -> str:
+	return re.sub(_VT100_ESCAPE_REGEX, '', data)
+
 
 @lru_cache(maxsize=128)
 def _is_wide_character(char: str) -> bool:
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/utils/util.py b/archinstall/lib/utils/util.py
index 0b75096f..a9a35506 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/utils/util.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/utils/util.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import secrets
+import string
 from pathlib import Path
 
 from archinstall.lib.menu.helpers import Input
@@ -8,6 +10,11 @@ from ..models.users import Password
 from ..output import FormattedOutput
 
 
+def generate_password(length: int = 64) -> str:
+	haystack = string.printable  # digits, ascii_letters, punctuation (!"#$[] etc) and whitespace
+	return ''.join(secrets.choice(haystack) for _ in range(length))
+
+
 def get_password(
 	header: str | None = None,
 	allow_skip: bool = False,
diff --git a/archinstall/main.py b/archinstall/main.py
index f5840c94..0d4e9435 100644
--- a/archinstall/main.py
+++ b/archinstall/main.py
@@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ from pathlib import Path
 
 from archinstall.lib.args import arch_config_handler
 from archinstall.lib.disk.utils import disk_layouts
-from archinstall.lib.general import running_from_host
+from archinstall.lib.general import check_version_upgrade, running_from_host
 from archinstall.lib.network.wifi_handler import WifiHandler
 from archinstall.lib.networking import ping
-from archinstall.lib.packages.packages import check_version_upgrade
 
 from .lib.hardware import SysInfo
 from .lib.output import debug, error, info, warn
diff --git a/archinstall/scripts/guided.py b/archinstall/scripts/guided.py
index 9a306d6a..68d5492f 100644
--- a/archinstall/scripts/guided.py
+++ b/archinstall/scripts/guided.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from archinstall.lib.authentication.authentication_handler import Authentication
 from archinstall.lib.configuration import ConfigurationOutput
 from archinstall.lib.disk.filesystem import FilesystemHandler
 from archinstall.lib.disk.utils import disk_layouts
+from archinstall.lib.general import check_version_upgrade
 from archinstall.lib.global_menu import GlobalMenu
 from archinstall.lib.hardware import SysInfo
 from archinstall.lib.installer import Installer, accessibility_tools_in_use, run_custom_user_commands
@@ -21,7 +22,6 @@ from archinstall.lib.models.device import (
 from archinstall.lib.models.users import User
 from archinstall.lib.network.network_handler import NetworkHandler
 from archinstall.lib.output import debug, error, info
-from archinstall.lib.packages.packages import check_version_upgrade
 from archinstall.lib.profile.profiles_handler import profile_handler
 from archinstall.lib.translationhandler import tr
 
diff --git a/archinstall/tui/menu_item.py b/archinstall/tui/menu_item.py
index b08d55cd..1062aeb1 100644
--- a/archinstall/tui/menu_item.py
+++ b/archinstall/tui/menu_item.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from typing import Any, ClassVar, Self, override
 
 from archinstall.lib.translationhandler import tr
 
-from ..lib.utils.unicode import unicode_ljust
+from ..lib.utils.encoding import unicode_ljust
 
 
 @dataclass