Right now someone who wants to add a new repo which is not on the repo master list, like e.g. a local server or something temporary etc has to go through a whole rigmarole of repo settings. And this makes use of non-standard repos quite hard, clumsy and error prone.
At the same time, much of this is not strictly necessary. The mods.d.tar.gz file gives the whole shebang of path information one might need. Wouldn't it be nice have a new automagical repo set-up routine? Step 1) Find a local FTP server by way of nmap or something similar or add a remote ftp server address. Step 2) Query this server until a file is found "mods.d.tar.gz" Step 3) Use the path to this file and and the paths contained there-in to set up the repo? Step 4) Test the repo found and report back. If failing offer the opportunity to add a repo by hand. This would cost a few seconds, but would improve usability of mobile applications with in particular enormously.
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