[packman] Packman on Github actions and S3

[Oleg Antonyan]

Hello packman team

Since around 2006 I've been considering packman aka "codecs" as 
something inseparable from openSUSE. The news about potential shutdown 
made me think of 1) am I ready to take this responsibility and 2) what 
if it's just shutdown and that's it.

The infra you guys maintain costs money and effort to keep it running, 
based on description in that original message few months ago. Meanwhile, 
I work on adjacent project (1) where one of the core ideas is "build 
package on Github actions, host repos on S3"

And here's that idea for packman essentials repo: 
https://packman.omnipackage.org. It's mostly vibe-coded proof-of-concept 
of essentials' packages built on Github actions (100% free compute) and 
hosted on Cloudflare R2 (free egress, 10gb free storage, dirt cheap 
beyond that). I've been using it for a while on 2 PCs, but only for 
codecs and pipewire-aptx on Tumbelweed. It's not hard to expand to other 
distros and full packman - that's still gonna cost below a cup of coffee 
to host on R2. The page at https://packman.omnipackage.org is just 
static html hosted in the same bucket with the packages and updated on 
each build. Builds happen every night or manually triggered. Sources for 
some packages taken from Factory, others persisted in the same bucket 
with configuration that allows easy update from upstream.

Just asking: what do you guys think about this idea? Do you see 
something like this as potential successor? Is bad idea in general maybe?

(1) https://omnipackage.org