On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:16 +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote: > On 5/28/07, Dean Sas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not in Gutsy at least, there's an authentication tab in > > software-properties-gtk, you can press the "import key file" and browse > > to a key file to add that. > > > Since software-properties-gtk is already a mime handler for > sources.list, could we extend s-p to be a mime-handler for a more > general repository-specification file? Something with a format > including such things as gpg key-id and keyserver, comment, and > possibly a list of mirrors. Then a user could click on an "add wine > repository" link, and be presented with a sane dialog verifying that > they really want to add the "winehq.whereever.org/apt" repository, > signed by foo, to their software sources.
Exactly, this would be ideal. As it stands the user has to do _more_ steps to use the GUI tools than simply cut and pasting the command lines. The requirement for a universe package is even more onerous. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
