Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.
3 minutes is inherently finite, or infinitely less then infinite.
However, I can confirm this at least for 10.04 and even on a package
without dependencies. Selecting sl for installation took 3 minute 1s.
Also,
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658924/+attachment/1686947/+files/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658924/+attachment/1686950/+files/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt
It also appears that this is only on the first large dependency search
within the application. Almost like the apt-get update process which I
executed did not build the search cache, and after it built it, synaptic
forgot about it between invocations.
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Synaptic processing appears to be
