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Re: [opensuse] SuSE-watcher/ksmarttray
- From: Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:38:51 +0200
- Message-id: <20060606113851.GC16551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx> [Jun 04. 2006 00:35]:
>
> I started a thread/discussion with the SUSE folks about that when
> openSUSE started. I was asking them whether it would be possible to do
> some refinements in YaST2, to have it fetch a list of repositories from,
> say, opensuse.org and propose them to the end-user as additional repos.
Actually, we were working on this functionality for 10.1 but
didn't have time to finish it. The current .repo/.channel thread
gives us quite good input for an actual implementation for 10.2
>
> It became pretty clear that it wouldn't be possible, because of
> ridiculous court rulings in the US and Germany (e.g. the Heise case),
> where "linking" to a resource that provides a package that under certain
> circumstances and/or jurisdictions would be.. well.. "attackable" in
> court, is already sufficient for potential trouble.
So you won't see SuSE/Novell offering such external links. However,
we will support a standard way of repository linking in the future.
Klaus
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>
> I started a thread/discussion with the SUSE folks about that when
> openSUSE started. I was asking them whether it would be possible to do
> some refinements in YaST2, to have it fetch a list of repositories from,
> say, opensuse.org and propose them to the end-user as additional repos.
Actually, we were working on this functionality for 10.1 but
didn't have time to finish it. The current .repo/.channel thread
gives us quite good input for an actual implementation for 10.2
>
> It became pretty clear that it wouldn't be possible, because of
> ridiculous court rulings in the US and Germany (e.g. the Heise case),
> where "linking" to a resource that provides a package that under certain
> circumstances and/or jurisdictions would be.. well.. "attackable" in
> court, is already sufficient for potential trouble.
So you won't see SuSE/Novell offering such external links. However,
we will support a standard way of repository linking in the future.
Klaus
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