🚀 go-pugleaf

FTPing to prep.ai.mit.edu I find in the pub/gnu directory about 88
packages (=programs, libraries and program collections).  This is all
very impressive, and must represent countless hours of good work by
innumerable volunteers.  A lot of the stuff there I already use, and
there might be lots more that could be useful to me.  However,

(setq whine-mode t)

with fancy names like ae, bison, elvis, hello (hello!? did someone
write "Hello world" in 105591 bytes (compressed)?  I hope not!), and
so on, it is not always clear what these things do.  Out of 88 or so
packages I find I recognize the use of about 2/3 of them -- I imagine
that makes me a very well informed person indeed?

The only way I see to get information about a GNU package is to
download it, or ask in this forum.  Both are a massive waste of
bandwidth (and my time) if it turns out I am not interested after all.

So why isn't there a nice, clean README file there, containing a short
little description of each package, that I can download and study at
my leisure?  It would cost so little, and be so useful.  If each
author of GNU software was required to provide such a description (max
10 lines, say) then a coordinator could produce the required file in
no time at all.

(setq whine-mode nil)

Thank you for your attention.

- Harald