Deb Installer for Dapper.

[Josué Alcalde González]

Some personal ideas:
- When you click on a Debian Package, you will see the properties of the
file. 
- Then, you can install it. Password will be needed. An advise will
appear.
- You can avoid to open Debian Packages from the browser. (Like .exe in
windows).
- MOTU can't control every software out there. (Because of license and
resources). 
- Users get frustrated when they open a "Debian Package" and file-roller
appears.
- Using "dpkg -i" is not a good idea, because it doesn't check
dependencies and it is a command line utility.

El dom, 23-10-2005 a las 14:20 -0400, Chris Peterman escribió:
> I concur on the point that making .debs able to "double click" install
> would basically turn them into .exes, and introduce the spyware problem.
> However you still need to input the password to install it. I think that
> that little interruption in the "Click-Click-Click" process would make
> at least some people thing about what they are about to install...
> 
> It would be a good idea to have it as an option that isn't enabled by
> default (Much like the Universe and Multiverse repositories are right
> uyonow)
> 
> - Chris Peterman
>  
> 
> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 19:00 +0200, HC Brugmans wrote:
> > Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > <quote who="Evan Dandrea">
> > > 
> > >>I think this is the wrong idea. If in a future version of Ubuntu I can
> > >>click on any .deb on the web and get prompted to install it, we'll have
> > >>every problem with spyware that Microsoft currently faces.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Interesting point - certainly more of a problem given that we don't have
> > > individual package signing.
> > > 
> > > - Jeff
> > > 
> > 
> > For the vast majority of packages universe should be enough, and I fully
> > agree with the pionts raised above.
> > But users won't ask a motu to put their favorite adult entertainment
> > dialer in universe.
> > It is better to provide these users a way to install this software in a
> > safeish way, rather than having them muck around, use autopackage, or
> > whatever.
>