On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 19:21 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote: > Adam, the problem is that it's extremely un-intuative for a user when > it's "download a pacakge with the .repo in it you found on a random > search on google, and THEN use Software to search for the app you > wanted to install". People unfamiliar with the underlying architecture > will not understand that easily. If we could make it so that a package > could both install a repository file AND software from that repository > (also known as "one click install") that would solve that problem, but > will still introduce a problem of security, because it will encourage > users to download random software from the web, essentially > invalidating all the security benefits of a package management system. All this seems to be covered in a competing sub-thread, so let's not confuse the issue any further. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
