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 check out the [documentation](papers/doc/README.md). it's mostly incomplete, but has details on effects.
 
 # unofficial packages
+[![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/tiny-repos/furnace.svg)](https://repology.org/project/furnace/versions)
 
 some people have provided packages for Unix/Unix-like distributions. here's a list.