On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:15:50AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:
- 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 really looks ok. It would be useful to anyone offering software for
Fedora instead of only to a small list of proprietary vendors.
Maybe in some cases those URLs can even point to something that's not
necessarily specific to a single distribution. For now, it could be just
different sections for RPM and Debian repos with Gnome Software choosing
depending on what kind of system it's running on.
This also seems to be approximately what openSUSE's One Click Install
does:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:One_Click_Install_Developer