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-This repository contains the supporting catalog for the alr tool.
+Default index for the `alr` tool.
 
-Please visit https://github.com/alire-project/alr to download alr.
+These are community-maintained Ada projects, ready to use.
+
+Please visit https://github.com/alire-project/alire to download `alr`.