Edward Andrew Robinson » ubuntu brainstorm http://www.earobinson.org “Brilliant people simplify things, and mediocre people complicate things.” — Unknown Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:12:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Lets Let APT-URL Install Repositories http://www.earobinson.org/2008/03/06/lets-let-apt-url-install-epositories/ http://www.earobinson.org/2008/03/06/lets-let-apt-url-install-epositories/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:24:16 +0000 Edward Andrew Robinson http://www.earobinson.org/2008/03/06/lets-let-apt-url-install-epositories/ APT-URL is one of my favorite programs. The great thing about it is I can keep a list of programs I like on a website and easily install all the program I like on a new box, or point someone new to Ubuntu to the website with all my favorite programs. The problem is that with the personal package archives, letting users run there own repositories on launchpad, and many great programs using there own repository’s you need to add them to your source.list file before you can use any of those great programs.

My solution, let APT-URL add a repository after giving a warning of course. Is this dangerous, sure it is but we can take a similar approach to this that Firefox does, only let trusted websites add to the source.list file. So on a trusted website like launchpad you would get a message like “launchpad.net is trying to add the following repository” compared to a random website that might say “wiki.earobinson.org is trying to add a repository if this is a trusted website please click yes otherwise click no”. This would add some risk but the benefit to the user is huge. Please support this idea by voting for it at the Ubuntu brainstorm.



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