Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
One of Ubuntu's strong points as I understand is
the fact that it has packages
for "everything" and they all can be installed easily with apt-get.
SUSE has made a great step towards "everything" with Build Service, there are
now a lot of nice repositories there with cool stuff.
But it's still difficult to install software from the Build Service
repositories. First, you need to browse the site, then figure out the
repository link, go to YaST and add it there. There should be a way in YaST
that lists all the repos in Build Service with short descriptions of the
contents. This list must be automated, not maintained by somebody. When a
new repository is created in the Build Service, it should automagically be
listed.
And more:
Right now, Konqueror has a very useful feature: when clicking a .rpm link on a
webpage, it downloads the .rpm and displays a button "Install with YaST".
It's genius.
Extending this feature would be to be able to click on a link to a file that
describes an installation source and Konqueror would display a button "Add
this installation source".
The current situation is not easy enough, the user needs to go to YaST
installation sources and type or copy/paste an url from somewhere. Too much
for a lot of people.
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I support that idea!
Also when you start the Yast module to add sources, why does it download
files from all the sources?
If I want to refresh the sources, I can do that manually. Now it only
makes everything SLOOOW, and makes me rather add a source in Smart
instead and use that...
/J
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