On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:15:50AM -0500, Bastien Nocera wrote:This, however, I think *would* be in line with the board's position -
> 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
it's effectively a better integrated version of the status quo.