That's a good question. Only reasons that comes to my mind
-it will teach new user how to do it with other apps better
-because lot of people don't know about it
-if someone using for example Mandriva will look on Debian/Ubuntu/other apt distro forum it'll be easier for them to change any apt-get in script to urpmi. However if someone knew that he/she should do it or even use sed to do it he/she would probably know how to install packages anyway:D
-if you are lazy it is faster to type something like: "apt-get gimp" then <a href="apt://gimp"> apt-get gimp</a>
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That's a good question. Only reasons that comes to my mind
-it will teach new user how to do it with other apps better
-because lot of people don't know about it
-if someone using for example Mandriva will look on Debian/Ubuntu/other apt distro forum it'll be easier for them to change any apt-get in script to urpmi. However if someone knew that he/she should do it or even use sed to do it he/she would probably know how to install packages anyway:D
-if you are lazy it is faster to type something like: "apt-get gimp" then <a href="apt://gimp"> apt-get gimp</a>
Already done. Try: install kaffeine install gimp It isn't cross packet manager however