Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (15 mails)

[Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>]

Pascal Bleser wrote:
> Lukas Ocilka wrote:
>> Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
>>> However we can still improve by providing a link in YaST Installation Sources 
>>> to what will come out of this project http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Portal
>>> This is going to work like "Get new addons" from Firefox, except it will be 
>>> for whole repositories instead of single addons.
>> Actually, the very next alpha of openSUSE 10.3 will have a new feature
>> "Suggested Installation Sources" (Repositories) in which a list of
>> suggested URLs (with name and description) are downloaded from web and
>> they are offered to the user just installing or upgrading the system.
>> Such functionality will be also enabled on a running system.
> 
> It would be great if people were able to add more URLs from where to
> download such repository descriptions.
> 
> Yes, indeed, I'm thinking of using opensuse-community.org to host such a
> file for Packman, Guru, etc... repositories that may not be suggested by
> Novell.

The current solution involves two-level-linking:

1.) List of servers (URLs) where to find lists of repositories
2.) Lists of repositories

The first-level is maintained by Novell, the other by either Novell or
the community, of course. Otherwise it wouldn't make much sense to have
two levels...

Bye
Lukas