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Hi,


I just recognized how much work it is to get the sources.list tuned in a way that one has the software he/she wants to have (and up to date). Since mintinstall already uses external sources to install software (I hope I understand the concept of mintinstall right), it would be very easy to install additional sources permanently. That would make it very easy to manage the sources.list and instead of searching several websites throughout the whole internet for new sources a lot of them could be stored at the Mint software portal with a brief description.

Just look here:
http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/informa ... untu-edgy/

There are a lot of repositories posted there, and there are several other sites. One could argue about the sense of adding that much sources for software (not for the 'sources', my former posting might cause some misunderstanding) is not necessary, but if you want to have newer versions of software you have no other choice than adding the repositories of that software. And this whole copy and paste process is annoying me, because it is slow and it's easy to write an error in sources.list.
It's all about introducing more point & click, which some might see as evil

Hah, I knew it, it's about Linux philosophy
Unfortunately I'm one of those people who like it the easy way if not necessarily impossible. As you already stated, it's my personal choice which software I want to use, and for me it doesn't matter much whether that is free or unfree software although I highly believe in the better quality of open source. But in this case it isn't even about that, there are also many free apps which aren't in the official repository, or at least not the newest versions. It's my personal risk if that makes my system unstable and new software is one thing that makes using computer fun for me, so I'm fine with it.

And about that evil thing: it's a really small change but really one of those who prevent Linux from being used by a bigger population. I'm trying to prepare Mint to be installed on my parents computer, so I already know the obstacles