On 05/16/2015 12:38 PM, Narcis Garcia wrote: > About PPA: > OS distributions have central packages repository; PPA are useful as > third-party packages and alternatives. > > PPAs makes easier to people for publishing software without some of the > difficulties there are in central repositories. This "main and secondary > places" allows projects to publish more updated packages than > distribution (central) provides itself. >
tl;dr: A central repository is useful. If there is a central repository, it should be reviewed. An extension developer can already publish the extension elsewhere; the user just needs to copy the files manually to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions. (Afaik other websites cannot use the GNOME plug-in for easy installation, but I may be wrong.) Package manager packages can be published to install the extension in a more natural way. However, if an ordinary user wants to try some extensions, the place to go should be a central, integrated and easily accessible repository or the user's default package manager repositories. Both need review from GNOME or distribution maintainers. Users should not have to search the web and download software from dubious places. Now, I may not be the right person to comment on these issues since I neither review nor currently use extensions. But I see Windows users google for software they've heard about without thinking about whether the place they download from is trustworthy. I don't want this to become a habit of free software users as well.
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