Fedora's way forward

[sean]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:28:20 -0600
Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:04 -0500, sean wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:00:10 -0500
> > Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > What would be useful (free or nonfree) is an xml/yum-repository type format
> > > that could be hooked into firefox and friends so you can 
> > > 
> > > 	"Click here to subscribe to fetchmail-pro"
> > > 
> > 
> > Already possible.  Repository maintainer publishes a link on their 
> > website to a rpm that installs a repo file.   Click on the link,
> > click "Install RPM" when prompted and Bob's your uncle.
> 
> I just tried this. I clicked on the freshrpms-release RPM in Galeon, it
> just prompts me to save it. However once saved, opening it in Nautilus
> starts up system-install-packages and allows me to install it. Neat.
> 
> Nice to see this functionality return. Now if you could get it to go
> direct from the browser to installing packages, you'd really have
> something. (A vector for malware if you're not careful. Check those GPG
> sigs...)
> 

Hmmm, strange.   I hadn't tried in a long time, but I just tried again 
and I got an option to "Open with Install Software" which allowed
direct installation.

Sean