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Re: [opensuse-project] Adding installation sources made easy
  • From: Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:34:11 +0100
  • Message-id: <200701241034.11452.suse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Onsdag 24 januar 2007 09:24 skrev Silviu Marin-Caea:
> 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.

The community delivers this to a certain degree already:

Package search:
http://benjiweber.co.uk:8080/webpin/

Add most common repos with a few clicks:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=43378

Benjamin is working on adding functionality to install packages to his already
great package search afaik.

Martin
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