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Draft: Add SSOT for packges

DarwinJS requested to merge DarwinJS-add-packaging-information into master

What does this MR do?

  1. Removes seemingly now irrelevant information about ARM64 not being fully supported yet. Seeking clarification here: &4397 (comment 1236410010)
  2. Surfaces information about what packages exist for officially supported OSes
  3. This information is not only not present, but this existing text on the page appears to create confusion by being easily misunderstood to mean that ALL supported ARCHes also have packages "GitLab provides arm64/aarch64 packages for some supported operating systems. You can see if your operating system architecture is supported in the table above." => These seem to be linked when they may not be as the second sentence is speaking only to being tested on an OS+arch combination.

As evidence of need - here is one partner question that I could not resolve with certainty using the supported OSes page information: &2370 (comment 1164576149)

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