Re: Feature request: install package by passing URL to apt-get
On Wed 22 Jun 2022 at 18:21:10 (-0400), Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On 6/22/2022 5:22 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:25:02 -0400 Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> >
> > > Anyways it would be nice to do:
> > >
> > > apt install http://domain/filename.deb
> > This strikes me as a nightmare waiting to happen.
>
> There was probably a similar feeling when .deb and dpkg and apt rolled out.
I think you made this up. I'm sure there were some people who were
happy enough with Slackware when dpkg was evolving, but I never read
of anyone using Debian who would have preferred dpkg not to exist.
As for APT, well, using dselect was getting gradually less able to
cope as the number of packages increased into the thousands.
Effectively, the apt method in dselect came to its rescue. The idea
of dist-upgrading with dselect is "Aaargh".
Cheers,
David.
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