Comments on: AptUrl – Why don’t we use it for the Ubuntu wiki?

By: earobinson

earobinson — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:56:31 +0000

orvils, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUrlProtocols

My localsettings.php looks like this:
# http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgUrlProtocols
$wgUrlProtocols = array(
‘apt://’,
‘http://’,
‘https://’,
‘ftp://’,
‘irc://’,
‘gopher://’,
‘telnet://’, // Well if we’re going to support the above.. -ævar
‘nntp://’, // @bug 3808 RFC 1738
‘worldwind://’,
‘mailto:’,
‘news:’
);

By: orvils

orvils — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:59:14 +0000

How can you add apturl link support to media wiki? By default it doesn’t seem to work.

By: Brad Johnson

Brad Johnson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:55:43 +0000

Right now apturl is relatively safe because to add a repo the user must manually add it. This is the safeguard. Allowing a repo to be added via URL string and then installed is a very “Microsoft/Activex” thing to do.

IMHO, we as a community should discourage the use of 3rd party repos with the same energy we discourage the use of Automatix. At the same time, adding resources to get the most popular programs into the Ubuntu Repos and keep them current. Do that, and the draw to a 3rd party repo, for the average user, pretty much disappears.

By: earobinson

earobinson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:33:12 +0000

@Jon I think thats great, but there is always going to be 3rd party aps that people want. Acroread for example.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:24:36 +0000

I just installed miro through the official Ubuntu repos.

By: randomwalker

randomwalker — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:09:29 +0000

I’ve been silently hoping for a long time that this will happen. To the opponents of the idea, all I have to say is that almost everyone adds third party repos anyway, and making features deliberately harder to use is not how you achieve security.

By: earobinson

earobinson — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:12:21 +0000

RainCt and Killerkiw, I think you are right being able to use the apt:// protocol with other browsers and programs (sending it over gaim would be cool also) would be great.

By: RainCT

RainCT — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:49:17 +0000

It’s obvious that killerkiwi means Firefox with FF (the official abbreviation is Fx, btw), and I fully agree with his comment, I’d like to be able to use apt:// on liferea, for example, and other programs.

By: earobinson

earobinson — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:29:31 +0000

@LaserJock
I’m not sure I see the difference between click a link and getting the message\
“you are about to install xxxx to install xxxx we must first add repo yyyy, would you like to add repo yyyy to install xxxx”

and

to install xxxx please first ad repo yyyy to your sources.list

either way I can edit a wiki page and change what yyyy is.

@Killerkiwi
Can you tell me what FF is?

By: Killerkiwi

Killerkiwi — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:10:36 +0000

I dont think third party repo adding is a good idea…. to easy to install damaging repos

Also why oh why is the protocol only registered in FF? It would be nice to be able to email links to my grandma so she can install “bridge”