[packagekit] Status of the APT backend

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 12:29 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 11:02 -0500, Justin Haygood wrote:
> > We could use the proposed One-Click Install standard for implementing
> > this in a distribution agnostic way. The user clicks a link to a
> > One-Click Install metadata file (really just XML).
> > 
> > This XML file provides:
> > 
> >  * Repositories
> 
> We don't want to be able to add repos using one click when installing
> packages - I think it's a massive security hole just waiting to happen.

If you are interested, there was a discussion about this at the latest
UDS in Boston:

https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/third-party-apt

Cheers
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