First of all, it is the only thing that is relevant. Repo needs to be functional using tools provided by the distribution that uses that repo format. No one car

First of all, it is the only thing that is relevant. Repo needs to be functional using tools provided by the distribution that uses that repo format. No one cares that one can download tarballs and compile them -- this is not 1997. In 2019 it is "Enter this command and get this result". Feed this result into the orchestration/management framework. Find a bug? Fix the bug. The rest of the system will continue to function. Second of all, you still have not provided a link to the doc that someone can read without installing a gopher client. Come on, you said you already have it!