Add nala support/Make a version of nala for deb-get

[Vortigern-The-Grey]

Requesting a new feature 🧑‍💻

If you are proposing a new feature for deb-get please describe the proposed feature with as much detail as possible here: I use nala as my apt frontend of choice, and i was wondering if it would be possible to get deb-get installed apps to act like apt apps eg. updated with apt upgrade, or in this case, nala upgrade. EDIT: 29/01/2024 To specify, was meaning if it was possible to get deb-get install apps detected by nala so that nala upgrade upgraded them.

[philclifford]

It would be possible to detect that nala is available and use it. Taking the presence of nala as a mandate to use it without explicit request (e.g. a --use_nala option or the like) would imo not be good. I use Nala, but not by default.

If I wanted to use Nala for all apt operations I expect I could achieve that locally (aliases, shell functions, symlinks, PATH, ...) without impacting other local accounts or requiring wider changes.

[philclifford]

nala upgrade will upgrade all deb-get-installed apps that are installed via apt or ppa methods. nala obviously cannot currently upgrade those that are using web, direct or git sources.

[philclifford]

Not possible beyond what is described above, where nala update/upgrade will already do the desired work. The app must be installed from and apt repo or ppa for nala to deal with it.