On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 09:34:33AM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > I think the best way for other packaging sites to make their stuff > available, trivially, for yum would be to make a package that provides > their .repo file. > > then users can: > wget url://to/that/rpm > yum install /that/rpm Time to repeat the six year old proposal originally internally and extenrally since. Define a mime type for a repository description file and its format. Add it with a helper app for mozilla/konqueror/firefox. At that point you can click on a "subscribe to DAG" button on a web page and let the helper do the work (via consolehelper to do the "root password" bit) Alan