Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
This is more a feature request rather than a bug (though it could be
seen as a usability bug). It concerns mainly Gutsy as it's the
development branch, but it applies to the other versions too.
Except for viewing and picking updates, everything the Update Manager
does (installing and removing packages) is intrinsically slow and not at
all urgent.
The Update Manager should do all the "real work" --- updating and
removing packages, loading the package list and building the dependency
tree, etc --- in a low-priority (not idle, just lower than interactive),
with only the interface running interactively. Especially the updates
should be very easy to do with lower priority, because they're run by
dpkg (or apt-get, I'm not sure), but even reading the package list
should be done the same way (with care to keep the interface
interactive).
The current behavior can turn even a dual-core machine unresponsive for
some time.
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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update-manager (and others) should lower their priority when working
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127243
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