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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 26, 2011 10:08 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

What you describe already exists. It's openSUSE's One-click-install. You click a link and the handler subscribes you to the repository and installs the requested package along with it's dependencies. You can then select if you want to stay subscribed to that repository to for example receive future updates.

Makes staying up to date with for example Firefox trivial.


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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration

Posted Jan 26, 2011 10:36 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

I am aware of openSUSE's solution as well as others like Ubuntu's PPA etc but it has to be available for more than just one distribution. That is sort of the point of getting the different distributions together and hash out the problems and solutions.

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