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.
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