On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 14:35 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > From what I've seen on irc today, Kalev would rather like to keep the
> > dialog, and make it not do harmful things - which would be my
> > preference as
> > well, the dialog has other uses besides just letting you remove
> > repositories, and it would be a shame to loose all of them just
> > because
> > this one once did the wrong thing.
>
> To be clear, everyone wants to keep the dialog and make it not do
> harmful things in the long run, but there is disagreement over whether
> it's desirable to keep it in the short term, as we don't have an
> immediate solution to the serious problems. I thought Kalev favored
> temporary removal as well, but if he's changed his mind, then I'll
> withdraw my freeze break request (but I respectfully disagree :).
>

Some of the other uses of the software sources dialog:
- Provides information about the configured sources
- Shows the installed applications for each source

A short-term solution that preserves these is to just drop the "Remove"
functionality, while keeping the dialog. Kalev was looking at doing that,
and at instead adding a way to disable or enable sources.
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