There should be a Packages section right in the main website

MMansions_Dave · May 6, 2021

Void Linux and Clear Linux have a Packages/Software section right on their respective homepages .

Arch Linux has a Packages widget right in the main website , If you go to Source Mage's Website , their Packages section ; affectionately called the "Grimoire" is only a few clicks away .

If you go to Mageia's , openSUSE's or Debian's website , there is no Packages section right in the main website , but if you search for them online , you will find it - it's madb.mageia.org , software.opensuse.org and packages.debian.org respectively . I still think the link should have been a part of the main website .

Solus and Fedora are undoubtedly mainstream quality Operating Systems , if they just did this ; there's literally nothing else to complain about .

DataDrake · May 6, 2021

We don't have a page for searching for packages so there's nothing to put on the homepage. You can poke around the official repo here: https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/ or the slightly styled but identically backed https://packages.getsol.us/

JoshStrobl · May 7, 2021

Building on this, it wouldn't actually be done via our main side, but rather a separate backend + frontend service and UX like Solhub, which will be our centralized development hub for upstream tracking, notifying maintainers of new package updates, build logs, etc.

This likely would not be promoted to the "main" header on the website either, which is more intended to be oriented towards newcomers to Linux rather than more technical information that may turn someone off. It is more appropriate for the Help Center, which we already link to.