I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository

[William Tracy]

Eek, once again, I managed to accidentally reply off-list. :-P

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Tracy <afishionado at gmail.com>
Date: May 29, 2007 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third
party repository
To: Christopher Halse Rogers <chalserogers at gmail.com>


On 5/29/07, Christopher Halse Rogers <chalserogers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since software-properties-gtk is already a mime handler for
> sources.list, could we extend s-p to be a mime-handler for a more
> general repository-specification file?  Something with a format
> including such things as gpg key-id and keyserver, comment, and
> possibly a list of mirrors.  Then a user could click on an "add wine
> repository" link, and be presented with a sane dialog verifying that
> they really want to add the "winehq.whereever.org/apt" repository,
> signed by foo, to their software sources.

Last year, I considered writing a proposal for Summer of Code to do just that.

I wrote another proposal instead that sucked and got rejected. :-P

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William Tracy
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