Re: Facilitating external repositories

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Paul Wise 

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> 
> > I could see us extending the apt preferences format to be something
> > like:
> 
> Why the preferences file instead of the sources.list file, which can
> already be in deb822 format?

Primarily because I wasn't aware of that format, and secondly the exact
implementation of where the information goes isn't core to my
suggestion.  The point is to tie apt repository, allowed packages and
expected key(s) together in a single place.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are