On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> My take away from the discussion so far is that the current board would not >> accept >> anything that 'automates' access to such external software. Doesn't matter if >> we ship >> the metadata on the ISO or not. >> >> The only thing that I can see flying with the current board is a system that >> is 'blind' to what it is offering, just like >> a web browser. > > How is that a better solution than making it easier to add new repositories through > the web browser? Or through a URL copy/paste in the software center? > > My naive approach would be to: > - allow repositories to be defined by a single URL (this is what third-party repositories > for Synology, iOS jailbreak, Cyanogen, etc. use) > - use a custom scheme in the software center to pass those URLs, eg. > gnome-software://rpmrepos.org/my-stable-repo > or even defining multiple repos with a single URL: > gnome-software://rpmrepos.org > The software center can now show you the list of repositories offered by this URL > - Convince repo maintainers to add those URLs to web pages > > One-click in the web browser, confirm in Software center. It also works for both > proprietary repos and free software restricted ones. The user can find out about the > repos through the existing page, that could be linked from the Software center as well: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Third_party_repositories > > Having said that, I don't think this is the blocker problem for most users. They know how > to find the repositories they need ("fedora rpm nvidia" in Google?), the problem is > providing making it easy for developers to package their wares for Fedora. > > Have you recently tried to install Skype or Spotify on a Fedora machine? Skype offers an RPM. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
