handling extensions in a canonical (no pun intended)

[Remco]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia<ciancia at di.unipi.it> wrote:
> The niceness of the package manager is that you can know e.g. which file
> belongs to which package, or clone your system by saving the installed
> packages and the /etc/apt/sources.list* files.
>
> Perhaps it is possible to create all the debs automatically (and keep
> them up to date) from the extensions themselves? But I guess the right
> place to host all them is the mozilla site.

Well that's why I proposed to use PackageKit to announce these
extensions to Synaptic. That's essentially a way to automatically
generate packages.

Remco