Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07.01.2021 22:16, Jean Louis wrote:
> > Again, it's not a software directory.
> >
> > It's primary use case is when you*search*  for some package and then see the
> > available versions, where they are distributed, and who maintains them.
> >
> > As such, the necessary knowledge about the user is "the user searched for
> > this package name".
> When clicking on this page:
> https://repology.org/projects/
>
> It shows all packages from A-Z making it software directory by
> definition here:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/directory

They're just showing their data in all arrangements they could come up 
with. It's not a significant use case, compared to others.

> repology.el package probbaly provides only access to searches within
> the full database.

And yet, you still argue that it is doing something wrong, somehow.