https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366826
--- Comment #2 from Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> --- 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). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
