Ship full APT lists in the live file system
This would improve the UX when using APT since it will not be necessary
to run apt update most of the time, and when it has to be run (will be
most common when installing packages from testing/@unstable) it will be faster since only a diff has to be downloaded. Users that install packages without persistence will like this, as will Tails Server users (and segfault, since he fears the initial apt update@, that can take
minutes, will put off users).
The drawback is that the lists occupy quite a bit of space => increased image size. It will also introduce data that will change quite a bit between each release => larger IUKs.
Feature Branch: feature/12238-ship-apt-lists
Related issues
- Related to #12237 (closed)
- Related to #6390 (closed)
- Related to #15584
Original created by @anonym on 12238 (Redmine)