The easier something is to do, the more harmless people will think it is, so you're right. Thanks.
Person the human wrote:
> 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.
That would be terrible.
The last thing Debian needs is people randomly installing things
that a website told them to install. That's how you get
malware-infested FrankenDebian.
-dsr-