Le mercredi 09 juin 2010 à 22:20 +0100, di a écrit :
> In GNOME the default open action for when double-clicking on a .deb package is
> to open with Archive Manager, which then complains 'Could not create the
> archive: Archive type not supported.'
That’s because currently it requires ar, for which you have to install
the whole binutils, which is 12 MiB. So we don’t do that.
> The context menu shows as the second option 'Open with GDebi Package
> Installer', and I think it would be hard to argue against this being a better
> default, especially seeing as archive manager can't understand .debs itself
> from a clean install...
This is clearly not an acceptable solution since GDebi will not check
whether the package has been signed by a trusted source before
installing it. Because of that the presence of gdebi by default has
already been questioned and I’m still not convinced.
Acceptable solutions include:
* splitting ar out of binutils;
* writing a new backend for file-roller that uses dpkg-deb for
debs instead of ar/tar.
Cheers,
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