feature request - a way to download *all* TDE-Trinity packages for a system - tde-users

4 Feb 2024

I don't know if this is totally selfish and/or solipsistic of me, but I would 
like to have a way to download *all* available packages appropriate to my 
system. 

If there is some command that will do this, that will work, as I can pick and 
choose on my own. A tool like aptoncd would be better, but I can find 
anything like it any more. Best thing about images created with aptoncd is 
that apt treats them exactly like repositories, so I don't need to cobble 
together self-styled hacks and use dpkg, but can just depend or apt to find 
the right combination of packages and dependencies. 

Debian still offers, I believe, extra CD or DVD images of the extra packages 
in their repositories. In addition to the installation images, there are 
usually extra discs, 1, 2, 3 and 4, containing extra packages. I used to 
search all over Devuan to find the same, but now it seems that they, too, 
have caught up, and offer disc images of extras. Or perhaps I have only 
recently discovered where they keep them hidden? 

My reason for this request is related to my recent previous posts: sometimes I 
find myself in a remote place, or in a crazy situation, where there is no 
internet access, or where -- such as recently -- flooding or some other 
disaster has knocked out internet. Yet, while I have no internet, I still 
need to have a working computer for other things that I do offline; and now, 
suddenly, my machine gives me problems, and I need to do a system 
reinstallation, or at least to install some new and unfamiliar packages. 

Thanks for any help, 

Bill