On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 05:45:21AM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
Ubuntu is having a meeting next week to discuss how to more easily grant users access to third party repositories (like wine's, perhaps).
I've got a meeting wiki up at http://wiki.winehq.org/TrustingThirdPartyRepositories It already lists the big issues that need discussing. If you're interested in the topic, please have a look and put your two cents in!
Well, openSUSE 11.0/11.1 use a remote hosted XML file which provides a list of repositories for addition, and also single-click "YMP" files for very easy repository addition.
This XML list includes my Emulators:Wine repository on the openSUSE buildservice for instance.
So perhaps they should look at and evaluate how openSUSE does it ;)
As for the points listed, we sometimes adopt a "do not care" attitude, because, well, users do not want it to be overdesigned or just don't care.
Ciao, Marcus