On 6/24/2022 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On 22/06/2022 18:04, 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.
Our cousins Ubuntu already have this capability since 7.10:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptUrl
The fact that this functionality has been available for ~15 years but
hasn't made it upstream into Debian suggests that Debian is not
interested in such functionality.
From playing with that it looks like that triggers:
apt install package
(install from the apt sources the user already has, there's syntax to
trigger a refresh, but I don't think you can add random apt sources or URLs)
I wondered why if Ubuntu has it, practically no 3rd party software
distributors/developers were using it.
Bijan
