Hello, I just got the new gnome-software update which asks a user if they'd like to enable third-party repositories[1]. It then installs the fedora-workstation-repositories package which provides repo files for a pycharm copr and Google chrome(!). (ins)[asinha@ankur ~]$ rpmls fedora-workstation-repositories -rw-r--r-- /etc/yum.repos.d/_copr_phracek-PyCharm.repo -rw-r--r-- /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo Was this discussed somewhere? Could someone please point me to a ticket or an ML thread if it was? I must've missed it. I'm on board with it in general, but I think few improvements are needed: - Clicking "enable" should tell the user what repositories were made available for activation. Open up the "software sources" dialogue straight-away, maybe? - The "find out more" link goes to the wikipedia page on properietary software, which is frankly useless. The Fedora Forbidden items would be a better page[2]. I would think the Forbidden Items page should require a section explaining what Gnome-software is doing here. The ideal scenario would be a special page that describes the individual repositories that are included in the fedora-workstation-repositories package. It should be a page that clearly speaks about free-software, and Fedora's commitment to it. I.e., it must educate users about the matter, and say "if you must use software that is not free/open source, you can do so here." - And of course, can RPMFusion repositories be included here too if we're happy to include Google's software? I didn't want to comment on the update. Where would the right place to discuss this be? [1] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-55a6726164 [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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