Fedora board vote and way forward

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 14:50:32 UTC 2014


Hi


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Matthew Garrett  wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:15:50AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> > My naive approach would be to:
> > - allow repositories to be defined by a single URL (this is what
> third-party repositories
> >   for Synology, iOS jailbreak, Cyanogen, etc. use)
> > - use a custom scheme in the software center to pass those URLs, eg.
> >     gnome-software://rpmrepos.org/my-stable-repo
> >   or even defining multiple repos with a single URL:
> >     gnome-software://rpmrepos.org
> >   The software center can now show you the list of repositories offered
> by this URL
> > - Convince repo maintainers to add those URLs to web pages
>
> This, however, I think *would* be in line with the board's position -
> it's effectively a better integrated version of the status quo.
>

I would however suggest that you use more generic url's similar to apt url's

yum://rpmrepos.org

So that command line users (via a plugin maybe) or other frontends can
access the same functionality without being led into thinking this
interface is specific to GNOME software

Rahul
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