apturl should not update cache on each call.
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by locating the apturl/captain entry point that updates the APT cache and trace how repeated installations invoke it. Done means repeated package installations within the chosen delay avoid unnecessary cache updates while installations still work correctly.
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Description
When installing packages via apturl, the apt cache is updated for every single call, each time an apturl button is clicked. While for the installation of a single package this is totally okay, this behavior makes the installation of several packages unnecessarily tedious because you always have to wait a few seconds for the cache update to be finished before the actual download and installation happen.
Since it is not very likely that within this short time frame significant changes happened in the repos that justify a permanent update, it would be much more convenient to wait maybe 30 seconds or so after the previous installation has finished before updating the cache again, so this does not interfere with further installations. Or let the user set this delay in a configuration file for apturl/captain.
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- Python
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- 9
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