Agreed. I wonder why package managers can't follow Go's lead in re-using DNS system for packages and then offering a service that just indexes what is available

Agreed. I wonder why package managers can't follow Go's lead in re-using DNS system for packages and then offering a service that just indexes what is available. Example indexing service: https://godoc.org/ https://godoc.org/ Example package: https://godoc.org/go.uber.org/zap https://godoc.org/go.uber.org/zap