[packaging] Meeting next week to discuss trusted third-party repositories

[Dan Kegel]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Thomas Leonard <talex5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Users should be able to install a Google app in two ways:
>> 1. click on an icon on Google's linux apps page
>> 2. use the distribution's package manager GUI to search for "google"
>> or the app name, find it, select it, and go.
>
> What gets shown by the distribution's search feature is up to the
> distribution, of course, but there's nothing stopping it from querying
> freshmeat (or Google) to find third party apps.

I think it unlikely that any distro will modify their "Add / Remove Packages"
to query freshmeat or google to find third party apps.

> Or having an approved list maintained by the distribution.

I don't see why a distro would maintain a totally separate
infrastructure (0install) when the current apt and yum systems
work well.

>> In either case, updates should be handled by the user's normal package
>> manager, but the updates should come from Google's repository (since
>> these are not generally open source apps).
>
> Sure, it will check for updates in the background from time to time
> ("0launch --gui" and click on Preferences if you want to change the
> interval).

I'm not aware of any distribution that supports 0install.

Basically, I'm not interested in 0install unless some distro decides
it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and replaces their
package manager with it.
- Dan