Feature Request: Bundle calls to apt

[merrx]

New Feature

Currently deb-get handles every app sequentially. During the install and upgrade process only one deb is passed to apt.

Please bundle all .debs and pass them to the package manager at once.

Firstly this speeds up the upgrade process.
Secondly there is the possibility of apt-hooks getting triggered unnecessary often.

example usecase: personally I make a snapshot of the filesystem before every change by apt, using timeshift-autosnap-apt.

[philclifford]

In your usecase can you not use the provided SKIP_AUTOSNAP env ?
The apt and ppa sourced apps can be bundled together by doing an apt-get upgrade -y and you can skip them in deb-get (export DISABLE_APT="y") to improve efficiency.
As for the direct and git-sourced packages: these have a higher tendency to be problematic and I really feel it would be a mistake to routinely attempt to bundle fetching all the debs and then installing them all in a batch - you can't bundle fetching the debs from random websites and git repos and most of the time goes in finding and fetching the debs. There's little efficiency gain to be had in grabbing 3-5 random debs and throwing them at apt together versus sequentially (except in the extreme case of installing 3-5 new apps with a ton of dependencies to solve - even then I'd expect the gains to be minimal).