Which third party repository do you use?

Sebastian Heinlein glatzor at ubuntu.com
Sat Jan 6 22:14:09 UTC 2007


Am Samstag, den 06.01.2007, 20:23 +0000 schrieb Alec Wright:

> Wow! This is a pretty good idea.
> In the software sources program, the Third Party tab can be renamed to
> Custom Software Sources or something, and there could be a tab added
> where you can check some checkboxes for third party repositories. It
> could be called "Extra Repositories" or something. But the only problem
> I can think of is that we're always being told, "don't use 3rd party
> repositories". I suppose that what we could do is add a not saying
> something like, "These repositories are not supported or reccomended by
> Cannonical, and are only added here for your conveinience, as they are
> commonly used."

Thanks for sharing your sources list. I am not sure if this is such a
good approach. If there is highly recommended software, we should try to
get it into the Ubuntu archive and not encourage users to install
software from somehow untrusted software providers.

Cheers,

Sebastian





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