Hi all, I had an idea several weeks ago, mainly that the wiki page on additional repositories at opensuse.org was nice, but not really optimal. Especially for regular users, who really cannot be expected to go find urls and enter them manually into various package managers. Projects such as konvenientSUSE help, but are rather limited because repos are hard-coded. So, my idea was originally to use the khotnewstuff framework to allow users to open a little utility and just install repositories from a dynamically fetched list, complete with descriptions and ratings and such. However, after I discussed this idea with a couple SUSE developers, it was put forward that RSS was really the best way to go about this. So, I have investigated it a bit and my idea is currently the following: (1)Define a RSS namespace with repository specific tags, as the standard tags don't perfectly fit and would lead to confusion. (2)Write/Edit a library and client to fetch repository RSS feeds and display a repo list to the user, allowing him or her to add/remove repositories from their local computer based on the list. (3)Consider figuring out a way to auto-generate RSS repo feeds based on the build service. I think this would be rather cool and would significantly enhance the usability of opensuse. I have a client written that works with standard (non-namespaced) RSS feeds and I think the basic idea is sound. At this point, I just want to gather some comments from other people. My main concern right now is what sort of tags should be added to the RSS repository namespace and figuring out some way to handle mirrors. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts and suggestions that people have, especially proposed RSS tags specifically for repositories. --Narayan Newton --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org