2014-12-28 21:10 GMT+02:00 Alexander Ploumistos <alex.ploumistos@gmail.com>:
2014-12-28 19:39 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@gnome.org>:
Your closing story, which I won't quote, was helpful. I'd argue it makes a good case for shielding the user from normal packages with GNOME Software, but I don't have a good answer for what happens when you really need to install a package that's not a graphical application (when did your users need to do this?), nor for proprietary or patent-encumbered software (which we probably need to accept will always be difficult).
 
The most recent example I can think of, is the youtube-dl script.


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