I didn’t say it was more secure, I said it’s about the same.

You said automation breeds laziness (by design, to an extent) and lazy end users tend to shoot themselves in the foot.

So, my question is : what part of automating download of DEBs from a specific source can be shooting oneself in the foot compared to doing the same thing manually every time ?

you should legally protect yourself

The MIT license will take care of that.

Also, to force the user to accept and acknowledge that the software they are installing using this tool is not verified to be safe is inducing fear and/or guilt, therefore is bad UX, I'm not doing that.

It's more functional than object-oriented and I read the former better than the latter. 😅

You understand perfectly.

How is the manual step more secure though ?

What does the user do before downloading a DEB that makes that gap between manual and automated ?

I'd be willing to try and reproduce that, but I don't see anything.

It doesn't, that's provided by Cortile.

My point is that I'm working a solution for end users.

The solutions you're offering are not user-friendly.

I don't care.

I'm and end user working for end users.

My main use case is end user desktops.

Which isn't user-friendly.

Well, I'm just automating what people currently have to do manually : visit GitHub and download DEB and install DEB.

If the automated process would be dangerous then the manual process also would be, and that would be on the maintainer for not providing an APT repository or a Flatpak, not on the user for just downloading from GitHub.

Why the OOP structure and syntax ? Sorry but it makes it difficult to read for me even in my own language 😅

I didn't know there was one, that's interesting, thanks.

Updates must still be delayed because of being third-party though.

I'd be willing to implement additional features for people who are extra careful about security.

Could you please explain what does this consist in ?

Thanks

What's a FIFO ?

I've also looked into VFS but found nothing I'd have the skills to implement. 😅

I'll look into it, thanks !

Discord not automating downloads of DEBs is one of the reasons motivating me to do this.

Personally I need the desktop client because I mod it with plugins that are so useful that I can't do without these anymore.

Alternatively, there are third-party repositories here and here.

There still is delay between Discord releases and repository updates so I still believe dynapt to be the better solution.

Thanks !

Thanks, and agreed !

Fortunately, copy/pasting works and you only have to do it once.

Yeah, I don't have the skill for this. I'd be very happy if someone else would make this, but if not then I'm sticking to HTTP.

In an APT package OMG 😂

I found an online version though, which I would never have found through my search engine (and on a site that doesn't even support HTTPS) 😅

Looks like difficult reading too 😭

Thanks anyway.

Sorry to ask

Don't be. I would love to know that an existing and more experienced program does what mine does.

I've been looking for it myself for a long time before deciding to build it.

isn’t this basically the same thing as apt-cacher-ng?

Here's what I'm reading :

Apt-Cache-ng is A caching proxy. Specialized for package files from Linux distributors, primarily for Debian (and Debian based) distributions but not limited to those.

A caching proxy have the following benefits:

• Lower latency
• Reduce WAN traffic
• Higher speed for cached contents

+------------+         +------------+        +------------+
| Apt Client |  <------+ Apt Cache  | <------+ Apt Mirror |
+------------+         +------------+        +------------+

So, not the same thing.

It locally mirrors existing repositories containing existing packages, it doesn't locally create a new repository for new packages from standalone DEBs.

I don't know anything about RPMs, but if you or anyone is familiar with it then perhaps !

local repo with file:// scheme

With that, I couldn't trigger a download when apt update is ran, I could only do a cron, i.e. a delay, that I do not want.

custom apt-transport

I thought about that, but found no documentation on how to do it. If you have any, I'm interested.

Even just finding documentation on how to generate DEBs and APT repository metadata files was very hard.

Thanks !

Thank you for your appreciation !

Je vais au lit bien avant l'heure de dormir (voire j'y passe la journée), car c'est un second bureau pour moi : travailler, faire l'administratif, planifier mes journées suivantes, etc...

Mais quand c'est le moment, j'éteins le PC portable, je lance de la musique douce sur mes enceintes via mon téléphone, puis n'y touche plus jusqu'au lendemain.

Sans musique en revanche, j'm'endors pas.

ASUS Vivobook S 16 OLED M5606UA-MX018X : 16 pouces, CPU AMD 8c/16t 4 Ghz, 32 Go de RAM, 1 To de SSD, WiFi ax.

Unfortunately it's not working 😅

Thanks

Unfortunately it's not working 😅

Thanks

Toujours pas de vérification de domaine alors que ça a été demandé cela dit

Yes

The command itself doesn't output any error, but starting OBS just after executing the command triggers the following :

warning: The Wayland connection broke. Did the Wayland compositor die?
warning: Attempting wayland reconnect
warning: Failed to write to the pipe: Bad file descriptor.
info: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 21 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)

warning: [pipewire] Failed to start screencast, denied or cancelled by user

I don't have a rules.d directory at /etc/polkit-1/ though, I only have localauthority and localauthority.conf.d.

Should I create the directory then create the file ?

Thanks

org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update

Thanks

Je comprends mieux, merci.

Ca n'aurait donc rien apporté de négatif ?

Dans le cas de la dissolution par Macron, qu'est-ce que ça aurait apporté de ne pas le faire ?

Yes but APT packages are the ones requiring the password. Thanks

Could you please elaborate on that ? Thanks