On 11/22/2010 12:18 PM, Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Nov 22, 10 08:44:41 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
- 'I am openSUSE NN.N architecture AAA, I need a package that provides PPP (or that handles mimetype MMM, which is only a special form of a provides symbol), and my prefered desktop is KKK, and any other relevant info, a user might want to expose. Maybe the list of my enabled repos too ... The response would be a list of - 1-click URLs, offering a choice of packages, sorted by relevance to the given information and by votes (!).
We almost do this already today with the "you are trying to play a codec I don't understand, do you want me to search for it" message you get.
Telling our users, where stuff is, is nothing illegal by itself. It just needs to be neutral. To avoid any risks, I would not ask Novell to host such an engine. I'd look in the direction of webpin (to demonstrate that this is a community driven engine).
So you can get a third party to accept this risk? Good luck with that :)
Actually, I am trying to find out where the risk really is. Google produces all kinds of links, and they don't appear to be responsible what is offered at the sites they link to. So why couldn't a software search engine do the same? Assumed it is sufficiently large and serves as a 'general purpose' dependency resolution engine, the risk is low that someone can take it down for serving a link to a software package where the user needs to have additional licenses.
Saying publically what software can be found where, should be possible under most jurisdications. No?
cheers, JW-
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