On 2016-09-23 22:48, John Andersen wrote:
On 09/23/2016 01:41 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It would be nice, thought, that repos have an easy to access readme file with comments about what is the intended use of the repo. And have YaST display that file at the time one adds that repository, in time to accept or cancel. Thus there would be no mistakes.
Agreed, as long as the file is not named README which occurs so commonly and usually contains NOTHING but an obligatory license. What started out as a good idea has been perverted over time by mundane information.
Maybe the file should be named DANGER! or BOOM!.
:-) It really doesn't matter the actual name of the file, just that zypper/yast when adding a repository automatically displays the file and ask to accept. Something like that. An option in zypper to get the description of any repo, installed or not.
Or maybe people should just password protect their "private" repos where they know there is dangerous or broken stuff lurking.
That's another possibility. But in any case, having a "description" of any repo one thinks of adding would be nice. Sometimes there is a description on the search page of openSUSE, but one doesn't always go that road. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)