Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (66 mails)

[Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of Ubuntu's strong points as I understand is the fact that it has packages 
for "everything" and they all can be installed easily with apt-get.

SUSE has made a great step towards "everything" with Build Service, there are 
now a lot of nice repositories there with cool stuff.

But it's still difficult to install software from the Build Service 
repositories.  First, you need to browse the site, then figure out the 
repository link, go to YaST and add it there.  There should be a way in YaST 
that lists all the repos in Build Service with short descriptions of the 
contents.  This list must be automated, not maintained by somebody.  When a 
new repository is created in the Build Service, it should automagically be 
listed.



And more:

Right now, Konqueror has a very useful feature: when clicking a .rpm link on a 
webpage, it downloads the .rpm and displays a button "Install with YaST".  
It's genius.

Extending this feature would be to be able to click on a link to a file that 
describes an installation source and Konqueror would display a button "Add 
this installation source".


The current situation is not easy enough, the user needs to go to YaST 
installation sources and type or copy/paste an url from somewhere.  Too much 
for a lot of people.

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