Always wanted zypper or YaST (they share the ZYpp brain) or even your PackageKit compatible frontends to first download everything, give a look to the new commit policies that will be coming in 11.2. Note that zypper options to control them at runtime are not ready yet.
Also, if you need to access your repositories with nfs4, see this post Michael Andres just published.
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Instead of having the superuser install an application, could the user just use the launcher search and automatically install applications from trusted repositories. You would need a service to properly index the applications, so that they can easily be filtered, rated, reviewed, etc.
The user may have an unusual file/document, the open function would have to determine the (MIME) type, and then un-installed applications/services could be offered to open that (MINE) type, also filtering on other attributes, and sorting by rating – a bit like the Plasma widget installer. I’m not sure how you get the best, but new and little used application to sort to the top of the list – I suppose branding.
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