Having this feature won't help me personally since I'm not using an SSD and I don't download packages from the internet often. The reason I wanted this to be built into apt is so that websites that would normally link to a file and tell users to download it could instead just give users a command to copy-paste into the terminal. It would help all users and change the way people use apt.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 3:20 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > Person the human wrote: > > I just want to get everyone's opinion on this before I request it from > the > > developers or possibly try to add it myself. > > > > Would it be nice if it was possible to pass a URL to 'apt install' so > that > > a package could be installed without first downloading its .deb file? I > > think it's good because it can save time and prevent unneeded damage to > > SSDs. Even if you don't have any info to add, please let me know what you > > think. > > # mkdir /tmp/apt > # mount -t tmpfs -o size=500M /tmp/apt > # ( cd /tmp/apt ; wget URL ; apt install ./package.deb ) > # umount /tmp/apt > > That does what you want, I think. You could wrap this up in a > script if you found yourself needing to do it often. > > In general, however, you aren't damaging your SSD's lifetime by > writing packages that you're going to install. You damage the > lifetime by writing lots and lots of things to it, over and > over. > > -dsr- >
