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On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of
> packages available for people to download anyway.

I would counter that Debian and others who use "apt-get" already do this,
Example

http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy/main/Contents-amd64.gz

> This file maps each file available in the Debian GNU/Linux system to
> the package from which it originates.  It includes packages from the
> DIST distribution for the ARCH architecture.
> You can use this list to determine which package contains a specific
> file, or whether or not a specific file is available.  The list is
> updated weekly, each architecture on a different day.

so maybe you could voice your opinion to them as well.

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