Details
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Suggestion
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Resolution: Won't Do
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P3: Somewhat important
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Description
Suggestion to add an interactive/shell/prompt mode for the installer's CLI.
This means the end-user invokes the installer or maintenance tool with the keyword to starts the interactive mode. The user is given a prompt to run any of the existing commands until explicitly exited. This means single commands could be run multiple times, or different commands chained:
$ ./installer.run interactive > check-updates -> updates available... > update -> success! > exit
$ ./installer.run interactive > search qt -> too broad output, let's narrow the search.. > search qt.qt6.620 -> output: qt.qt6.620.gcc_64,... etc. > install qt.qt6.620.gcc_64 -> success! > exit
$ ./installer.run interactive > list -> output: qt.qt6.620.gcc_64,... etc. > remove qt.qt6.620.gcc_64 -> success! > exit
This would potentially speed-up the CLI usage, if it would be possible to avoid fetching, extracting and evaluating metadata again for every command.