Darktable Copr

[Paul W. Frields]

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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