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-Default index for the `alr` tool.
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-These are community-maintained Ada projects, ready to use.
-
-Please visit https://github.com/alire-project/alire to download `alr`.
+This repository hosts the official community-maintained index of Ada projects
+to be used with the `alr` tool. Please visit
+https://github.com/alire-project/alire to download `alr`.