[Feature] Allow usage of external aria2

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[Feature] Allow usage of external aria2 #5495

Open samiksome92 opened 1 year ago

samiksome92 commented 1 year ago

Feature Request

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently scoop requires aria2 to be installed via scoop itself if we want to use it for downloads. However, someone may want to use a different external installation of aria2 (such as via winget) to be used.

Describe the solution you'd like

A configuration option similar to use_external_7zip, maybe use-external-aria2 which when set to true uses external aria2c available in %PATH% for downloads.

samiksome92 commented 1 year ago

The following changes seem to work: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/compare/master...samiksome92:Scoop:external-aria2

HUMORCE commented 1 year ago

Scoop should stop supporting use external programs in Core, IMO.