I think the real problem with a two-progress-bars solution is that the
outer progress bar would be no more accurate than the current one, and
would really just have to be equally divided. Perhaps a series of
explicitly named steps would be better.

However, a further problem is that we don't have good progress
information for many of the inner steps; for example, the installer has
no idea how far update-initramfs has got, which is a particularly slow
step. That presents a problem for any scheme involving an inner progress
bar and outer progress information reporting; the inner bar would have
to be a throbber for some steps and not for others, which I think would
be pretty ugly. That's one of the reasons we decided to go for a single
progress bar.

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