Fedora board vote and way forward

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jan 24 17:26:23 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 19:21 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> Adam, the problem is that it's extremely un-intuative for a user when
> it's "download a  pacakge with the .repo in it you found on a random
> search on google, and THEN use Software to search for the app you
> wanted to install". People unfamiliar with the underlying architecture
> will not understand that easily. If we could make it so that a package
> could both install a repository file AND software from that repository
> (also known as "one click install") that would solve that problem, but
> will still introduce a problem of security, because it will encourage
> users to download random software from the web, essentially
> invalidating all the security benefits of a package management system.

All this seems to be covered in a competing sub-thread, so let's not
confuse the issue any further.
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