FWIW I think CPAN is structured such that search sites operate
on mirrored data. The master server thus can remain dumb.
Sounds like a good recipe to me.
It's a bit sad but i think even now we are struggling to meet CPAN's
architecture and ease-of-use, let alone improve on it.
Changes like this aren't off the table in the future. Right now a lot
of the work is being to bring some level of sanity to what is already
there and then make it possible to iterate and hash out what we
want a python package index to look like.
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