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Some (many) weeks ago, I started a discussion with a few SUSE folks about adding a feature in YaST2
that would download a list of community repositories from a central location (opensuse.org) - in a
similar fashion as YOU does - and propose it as a checklist (including a description, etc...) to the
end-user. She'd just need to click the community repository and it would be included in the list of
installation sources for YaST2.
The main issue (besides YaST2 developers most certainly not being happy about adding a feature ;))
is legal: some repositories (such as packman and mine) provide packages that are not unencumbered
for distribution in some countries, most notably the US (e.g. lame, mad, MPlayer).
SUSE Linux would still not _include_ such repositories but would _link_ to them, indirectly.
Although this seems unproblematic, it is not, see the Heise case (lost in german court because they
published an article that links to a piece of software with which one can read encrypted DVDs).
Adrian and/or AJ wanted to ask Novell's legal dept about it, but there has not been any feedback up
to now. As I can imagine both of you guys have shitloads of work to do all the time, I post this
mail as a reminder. And if you have some more information about it, it would be nice to let us know :)
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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