[Discover] [Bug 366826] Adding sources in discover cannot possibly work

[Aleix Pol]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366826

Aleix Pol  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|CONFIRMED   |RESOLVED
 Resolution|--- |FIXED

--- Comment #4 from Aleix Pol  ---
Integrated software-properties-kde in the PackageKitBackend (provided it's
available) to be able to juggle repositories.

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[Discover] [Bug 366826] Adding sources in discover cannot possibly work

[Aleix Pol via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366826

--- Comment #3 from Aleix Pol  ---
Makes sense. I'm tempted to say that if somebody wants to have weird versions
of stuff, he could either add it himself with the text editor or use bundles
(i.e. flatpak, snappy, appimage).
Would that make sense? Or there's a clear usecase for adding apt repositories?

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[Discover] [Bug 366826] Adding sources in discover cannot possibly work

[Harald Sitter via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366826

--- Comment #2 from Harald Sitter  ---
It's not really common for debs, but, generally it's possible (and done by
spotify, chrome other proprietary stuff). You install a deb and it injects its
relevant update repo into the system sources.

The problem with it is that you first have to have a deb to bootstrap the repo
into your settings. But there is no deb for that random launchpad PPA you'd
like to add, so for 90% of the use case it's a non-solution on account of not
existing :/

Which is why I think this ought to be considered from a design perspective.
We could absolutely take the same stance as packagekit and say that sources
cannot be add or edit via Discover and we expect users to use a distro CLI tool
or whatever if they want to add a foreign repo (which incidentally is what most
people do with PPAs specifically anyway). 
OR we consider this wanted functionality under the powerful-when-needed mantra,
in which case I think we need to manually craft support for edit/add (i.e.
introduce some add-on plugin interface through which distros can implement this
functionality for their respective package management system).

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[Discover] [Bug 366826] Adding sources in discover cannot possibly work

[Aleix Pol via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366826

Aleix Pol  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

  Flags||Usability+
 Status|UNCONFIRMED |CONFIRMED
 Ever confirmed|0   |1

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[Discover] [Bug 366826] Adding sources in discover cannot possibly work

[Aleix Pol via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366826

--- Comment #1 from Aleix Pol  ---
Harald, I guess. Or well, how would you like this to work? Do you think having
repositories as deb files as suggested there would work?

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