pacurls?

sajro · 2008-05-26 15:27:06

I'm sure many of you have heard of apturl? If you haven't, then I'll tell you that it is a system to use hyperlinks to control apt-get on apt-get based systems. Are there any plans to implement a similar thing in pacman? I think it would simplify package installation and could also be implemented in AUR wrappers like yaourt.

Any thoughts?

abhidg · 2008-05-26 16:51:10

I tried adding a pacman:// file-handler to firefox (from about:config)
once but it did not work. Maybe it's not as simple as that.

But I don't see how anything other than webpages on arch would benefit
from it. Anything which is natively installed on the system can just query
the pacman db or call pacman itself (directly/via alpm).

hussam · 2008-05-26 18:32:24

what does it do? entering apturl://link/to/package.deb installs the debian package?

Last edited by hussam (2008-05-26 18:33:28)

SamC · 2008-05-26 18:43:13

If I remember correctly, they allow you to click a link, which then installs a package that is already in the apt database. I think that's so that it can't be used to install malicious packages.

Mr.Elendig · 2008-05-27 07:01:29

sajro wrote:

I'm sure many of you have heard of apturl? If you haven't, then I'll tell you that it is a system to use hyperlinks to control apt-get on apt-get based systems. Are there any plans to implement a similar thing in pacman? I think it would simplify package installation and could also be implemented in AUR wrappers like yaourt.
Any thoughts?

I can't see that yaourt etc will benefit from it, since we got libalpm that would be a better way. Just to bad that there currently are only one tool that uses it, beside pacman

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#1 2008-05-26 15:27:06

pacurls?

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Re: pacurls?

#3 2008-05-26 18:32:24

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#4 2008-05-26 18:43:13

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