[c_moscardi]

Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't particularly dedicating this to new users. This solves a problem for me, an experienced *nix user. I'm not even sure it /would/ solve a problem for new users (arguably ninite doesn't either) - you need to know what packages you care about in order to have an interest in downloading them.

This site gives me an interface to say, "oh yeah, I /do/ need VLC on this laptop, come to think of it", rather than having to lazy-evaluate that when I have a video downloaded and realize I don't currently have a means of playing it.

I spend a fair bit of time doing DevOps work, and this isn't meant to be some sort of configuration management or provisioning tool. This is for desktop / dev users, which is, I think, quite a different use case (but an increasingly relevant one). I have a dotfiles repo, which is to say I'm familiar with the "document things in scripts and repos" game - but it's not clear to me that something like a script-as-documentation is even a useful process to go through when any given computer I set up is going to be used differently. That laptop playing VLC is very different than the web dev box I spin up to mess around with a new project.