Comment 11 for bug 339951
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| Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote Re: [Bug 339951] Re: Create a new PPA view that targets users | #11 |
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> Perhaps we should have a brief sentence before the PPA description as
> you've suggested. What do you think Julian?
Yes, we do need something. I've asked Matt if he can get some more
introductory text aimed at end users in the help wiki, and then we can
reference it from the PPA index page, maybe in a pop-up.
> And yes - it would be great to have a [subscribe] button :), currently
> the best we can do (with Karmic) is as described in the "Adding this PPA
> to your system" section, but I hope that we'll soon be able to make this
> a link instead which will automatically bring up Software Sources on the
> users computer with the ppa ready to confirm.
Remember that this is down to the Ubuntu guys, and they are very much against
installing PPAs from web links.
> > ...and this is pretty much it. I understand there might be a need for
> > filing bugs specific to their PPA or browsing the packages in some form,
Bugs on PPAs will be coming in the near future!