Re: Bug#30505: apt: Apt should offer the option to download debs only when needed
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 steveh@eecs.umich.edu wrote:
> It would be nice if apt offered a command line option to download a deb
> file only when it is going to be installed (as opposed to downloading
> them all first before installation begins), and then removing it after a
> successful extraction.
Don't expect this horribly quickly, it is not terribly simple to make such
a system reliable. I've been thinking about it on and off for some time
though and do have a bit of a plan.
Jason
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