On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 09:16:38AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On 09/10/2015 08:40 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>One step in from that are the curated COPR repos. Specifically, those
>applications that are self-contained within their repository and do
>not alter any part of the platform. This is a good place to put
>software like Chromium, PyCharm or Darktable. Packages that aren't
>going to meet our strict guidelines (and don't really need to in order
>to be useful). In general, we'd want keep this to a small list of
>upstreams that are reasonably good at keeping themselves patched for
>security bugs, of course.
If this is a "step in" from the randomness of the outermost copr repos, has
any consideration been given to them being enabled by default? I am
concerned that we're going to have some very valuable apps in this curated
copr space that are going to prove difficult for the very users who want to
use them most (less technical users trying out fedora perhaps for the first
time) to be able to get them installed.
I'm guess still unclear on what the F23 darktable installation experience is
going to be like, I guess. Can anybody point to or a provide a write up
step-by-step of what that experience is going to look like?
As I understand it, the installation experience is like this:
* Darktable shows up in GNOME Software as other apps.
* The user selects installation, and receives a notice that the
application is not part of official Fedora repositories. (I don't
know the current text.) When the user approves, the copr .repo
definition is set to enabled=1.
* From then on the user receives updates just as with other software.
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