Yes, it is. Having said that, the package manager is usually associated with a repository - e.g. most distro's using apt will give the user access to the Debian

Yes, it is. Having said that, the package manager is usually associated with a repository - e.g. most distro's using apt will give the user access to the Debian and/or Ubuntu repositories. Perhaps repository size/philosophy/etc. is what the question was really after. If that is the case, it ought to be reworded though.