[u-rate]

That’s a nice list, but a brief explanation for each package would be very helpful. As a beginner I have no clue what most of them do. I chose Arch because I do not want to fill up my system with software I never use, copy pasting this list would defeat the purpose…

[usr1106]

I have no Arch system at hand, but isn't that what pacman -Si would do?

   curl <the-list> | xargs -n 1 pacman -Si

(completely untested, requires at least filtering the comments the list already has and the headlines)

DRY, don't type what can be generated.