Re: Repository feature proposal

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> Now, my idea is to create some sort of file format describing the
> repository, that can be "imported" by the software management program
> (up2date/r-c-packages). That way, you can publish one such repository
> description file on your website, that users download an import (or even
> open directly from in the browser),  and then all your software can be
> accessed from the same management tool. Perhaps one could create
> "repository rpms", similar to how public GPG keys are imported and
> stored in the rpm db? 

An "application/x-yum-repository" file format which mozilla knew how to
feed to a simple app would certainly be nice.

You'd still need a simple management tool as you say - so people can remove
them, but "click here to add Nethack" is a nice interface 8)