* Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jun 04. 2006 00:35]: > > I started a thread/discussion with the SUSE folks about that when > openSUSE started. I was asking them whether it would be possible to do > some refinements in YaST2, to have it fetch a list of repositories from, > say, opensuse.org and propose them to the end-user as additional repos.
Actually, we were working on this functionality for 10.1 but didn't have time to finish it. The current .repo/.channel thread gives us quite good input for an actual implementation for 10.2 > > It became pretty clear that it wouldn't be possible, because of > ridiculous court rulings in the US and Germany (e.g. the Heise case), > where "linking" to a resource that provides a package that under certain > circumstances and/or jurisdictions would be.. well.. "attackable" in > court, is already sufficient for potential trouble. So you won't see SuSE/Novell offering such external links. However, we will support a standard way of repository linking in the future. Klaus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
