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... -- Raúl Romero [^BgTA^] - http://www.bgta.net On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@suse.de> 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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