On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:28:20 -0600 Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:04 -0500, sean wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:00:10 -0500 > > Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > What would be useful (free or nonfree) is an xml/yum-repository type format > > > that could be hooked into firefox and friends so you can > > > > > > "Click here to subscribe to fetchmail-pro" > > > > > > > Already possible. Repository maintainer publishes a link on their > > website to a rpm that installs a repo file. Click on the link, > > click "Install RPM" when prompted and Bob's your uncle. > > I just tried this. I clicked on the freshrpms-release RPM in Galeon, it > just prompts me to save it. However once saved, opening it in Nautilus > starts up system-install-packages and allows me to install it. Neat. > > Nice to see this functionality return. Now if you could get it to go > direct from the browser to installing packages, you'd really have > something. (A vector for malware if you're not careful. Check those GPG > sigs...) > Hmmm, strange. I hadn't tried in a long time, but I just tried again and I got an option to "Open with Install Software" which allowed direct installation. Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
