Installing software from web

[Rob Diehl]

I think work could be done to facilitate easier installation of 
"unofficial" packages. While it is true you could comprimise security by 
installing untrusted packages, my argument is the user should be able to 
download whatever he/she wants. Too much sanitizing of available 
software can be a bad thing, but that's just my opinion. I've been 
thinking of how to facilitate easier software installation without 
comprimising security too much, and came up with these ideas:

1) Firefox extension that lets you right-click on a .deb package within 
a repository, and have the extension automatically parse the URL and 
send the repository info to apt. Something that says like "Install 
software package". Extension pops up a password box prior to running apt 
  to authenticate.

2) Firefox extension to auto-parse a URL and add the repository to apt. 
Right click -> "Add to Repository". Pop-up a password box for 
authentication. Then the user would proceed to use existing apt / 
synaptic tools and browse the new added repository.

Anybody have any other ideas?