appdb issue: can't search for apps platinum on 1.0.x!

[Ben Klein]

2009/2/28 Remco <remco47 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> In fact, it's common practice for repos like rpmfusion.org to
>> have a tiny package that just adds themselves to your software
>> sources.  (See http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration )
>> Scripts are right out, though.  It has to be a package,
>> because you can't run a script with a single mouse click.
>
> The WineHQ-provided .deb and .rpm packages themselves could add the
> WineHQ repo as part of their installation routine. There is no need
> for a tiny separate package.
>
> That would result in the simplest installation scenario imaginable:
>
> * Click here
> * Enter password
>
> After that, Wine will have been installed, and updates will start coming in.

Except that the first package would be technically outside of the
repository, and would have the same version as the one in the
repository. This COULD make the package manager think there's an
update that needs to be downloaded when it doesn't.