On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote:
i am concerned about *myself*
Is your concern the use of bandwidth?
yes
Is a disk being filled up and
running out of space? Something else?
frankly, if the downloaded files cant
be used, its *definitely* wastage
of space
Are you *only* concerned about the "apt" command (and maybe apt-get), or
is the concern broader?
yes
i use only apt
Do you also want to place restrictions on other
commands that can download files and store them on the disk, like lynx,
curl, wget, ftp, w3m, firefox-esr, and so on?
no
Either alias apt to something harmless or ensure a directory in /home is
first in your path and put a script called apt there.
e.g. An alias will mean you cannot run apt directly but can bypass it
when you really want to. Stick this in your .bashrc or whereever is
approprate for your shell.
$ alias apt='echo No APT please'
$ apt
No APT please
$ \apt
ptapt 1.8.2.3 (amd64)
Usage: apt [options] command
apt is a commandline package manager and provides commands for
searching and managing as well as querying information about packages.
It provides the same functionality as the specialized APT tools,
like apt-get and apt-cache, but enables options more suitable for
interactive use by default.
Most used commands:
list - list packages based on package names
search - search in package descriptions
show - show package details
install - install packages
reinstall - reinstall packages
remove - remove packages
autoremove - Remove automatically all unused packages
update - update list of available packages
upgrade - upgrade the system by installing/upgrading packages
full-upgrade - upgrade the system by removing/installing/upgrading packages
edit-sources - edit the source information file
See apt(8) for more information about the available commands.
Configuration options and syntax is detailed in apt.conf(5).
Information about how to configure sources can be found in sources.list(5).
Package and version choices can be expressed via apt_preferences(5).
Security details are available in apt-secure(8).
This APT has Super Cow Powers.
tim@dirac:~ (none)$
