Edgy Third Party Package Management

Sebastian Heinlein glatzor at ubuntu.com
Sat Jul 1 14:40:11 BST 2006


Am Freitag, den 30.06.2006, 16:42 -0500 schrieb Jerry Haltom:
> 
> The idea of adding things installed through ThirdPartyApt to
> gnome-app-install automatically is appealing, but I believe slightly
> separated from the actual goal of ThirdPartyApt, which is to move the
> actual initiation of the distribution of the program to the
> distributions web site (where, arguably, I believe it belongs), vs an
> Ubuntu-centric management application. 

Gnome-app-install concentrates all (known) applications in one user
interface. So the user hasn't got to click though several web pages,
that also have to be found at first. So gnome-app-install is also a good
place to advertise third party apps.

Sebastian




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