This type of situation can have a significant impact on scripted configuration. The situation first and foremost on my mind is adding packages via either UserData or Cfn-Init inside of the AWS EC2 service. Additionally, Packer and Vagrant using the Shell provisioner would be affected, and I'm sure there are many other cases, as well. My point is that this has the potential to affect far more than just a one-time single user interaction, but it would actually make it easier to remove some kludgey workarounds that may be necessary to overcome dpkg locks in an enterprise environment.
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