Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (62 mails)

["Raul Romero" <raul@xxxxxxxx>]

The idea of OSI is not new. It's similar to PBI files of PC-BSD. Look
this page for some examples:

http://www.pbidir.com/

In the future, opensuse.org could have a url with contents like pbidir.com...
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Raúl Romero
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
<dmacvicar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > Frankly, I fail to see difference to the add-on product concept, which is
> > basically a repository with addiotional information.
> Technically yes.
>
> But technically everything is the same.
> - Wav files are just compressed mp3s
> - Alien movie is just Jaws on a Spaceship
>
> Innovation is usually the small final step/small difference that makes
> people use it in a different way.
>
> I have never seen any webpage offering an addon that you can download
> and then click from your desktop and get a YaST wizard to install it.
> And that is why I find interesting from the concept, I think there is
> value to exploit here.
>
> You may be right that technically, using the addon concept + the missing
> glue is a better technical solution than Raul's prototype. But the idea
> remains the same. The thread should focuse on how to get there. Any
> technical solution is valid.
>
> - May be we only lack a small glue here to allow a one click install
> from a downloaded file
> - May be we only lack easy mime type info (to recognize an addon file in
> the desktop)
> - May be we lack marketing on how to create an addon for people wanting
> just to distribute a set of interdependent packages
> - May be it is possible and I just haven't seen it.
>
> Duncan
>
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