Suggestion for Ubuntu

[Flavio Martins]

Maybe something like 

i.e: apt:// PACKAGE @ REPOSITORY & version=feisty & section=main

If this becomes possible. I strongly suggest to enforce the notion of
trust. Inform the user that he must be totally sure, educate the user
about non-trusted repositories and possible breakage. This must be done
right if done at all.

Regards

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 15:12 +0000, proppy wrote:
> A nice way to do this could be, to have some special url scheme,
> like apt:// which trigger synaptic when clicked (and maybe even adding
> repository in source.list when needed).
> 
> Just my 2 cents thought.
> 
> On 10/16/06, Nelson Alvarez <alvareznelson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A very, very humble suggestion.
> > I know nothing about programming. I am just a new Ubuntu user trying to
> > figure out the Linux world.
> > Coming from Windows, the most shocking ferature of Linux distros was the
> > impossibility to install and uninstall programs the one-click easy way. Of
> > course, once I learned how Synaptic works, I quickly understood the
> > superiority of this way of doing things. But my first reaction when I needed
> > a program, such as RealPlayer, for instance, was to download it from its
> > website. I downloaded a  tar.gz file to my desktop, clicked on it, and went
> > nuts when nothing happened. I overcame that. I'm a happy Ubuntu user now.
> > But, even so, wouldn't many new Linux users feel more compelled to pursue in
> > their discovering of Ubuntu if it could deal with those packages more
> > efficiently? Will Canonical promote a standard way to deal with installing
> > and uninstalling programs in the Linux world? That WOULD be Good-bye
> > Windows, in my opinion. Thanks.
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