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Slow, unnecessary version check updates on unrelated command
When installing channel 1.8, I don't want to check for updates to other channels. Especially not if that slows down the instillation of the channel I'm asking for.
In this case, the "Checking for new version" steps took longer than the "Installing" step.
$ julia +1.8
ERROR: `1.8` is not installed. Please run `juliaup add 1.8` to install channel or version.
$ juliaup add 1.8
Checking for new Julia versions
Checking for new version on channel 'pr55152' is taking a while... This can be slow due to server caching
Checking for new version on channel 'nightly' is taking a while... This can be slow due to server caching
Checking for new version on channel 'pr56882' is taking a while... This can be slow due to server caching
Checking for new version on channel 'pr56707' is taking a while... This can be slow due to server caching
Installing Julia 1.8.5+0.aarch64.linux.gnu
Moments later, I tried to add version 1.7 and all these same channels were re-checked. This is impactful in the case of bisecting based on Julia version.
This is annoying because I get an error when the nightly check happens now which means I cannot add a new normal julia version at all.
Would be fine if the update checks were done in the background or not at all.
We should keep checking for a versions db update (and if there is one download it) to make sure the add command actually operates on the latest version info, but I agree, we should not check for updates for any of the "direct download" channels, that has no purpose when an add is executed and is the part that is slow.
