Markus Thielmann - Comments for "Ubuntu: Adding repositories via URL"

think apturl for adding

think apturl for adding repositories is redundant, and I think the way you can use gdebi to achieve the same outcome - currently - is the better solution. See the new playdeb -blueoo.com - for how it can be done with gdebi.

(Disclaimer: I work for

(Disclaimer: I work for Canonical, but in no way related to the development of Ubuntu, and I am not an Ubuntu developer in my own time)

The problem that I see with making it easy to add repositories is that those repos will then be used for package upgrades. I recently fixed a laptop where someone had added a PPA expecting just to get a flash package or something, but had ended up with woefully busted network manager packages too.

Installing a single .deb with gdebi does not leave one vulnerable to this kind of future breakage.

I think apturl for adding

I think apturl for adding repositories is redundant, and I think the way you can use gdebi to achieve the same outcome - currently - is the better solution. See the new playdeb - http://www.playdeb.net/ - for how it can be done with gdebi.
Click on a .deb url to install the package. This package includes/adds a .list file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ Then you can run Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, or 'sudo apt-get update|install' to get your respository and it's applications.

Very clean, and if feel the best way to implement single click adding of repositories.

I have created a dedicated

I have created a dedicated package that installs a file to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. I made this package available in our intranet, so it's easy to install the package after downloading it via Firefox. The package is also contained in the repo. So additonal repositories or changed URLs can be pushed to all the repository users ... Well yes, it wasn't perfectly related, but somehow fits in there ;)