update-manager behaviour [was: Auto-launching of applications]

[Martin Pitt]

Sam Tygier [2009-02-20 12:42 +0000]:
> using nice and ionice maybe it is possible for the updates to have no
> noticeable impact on other tasks.

That's a good part of the problem, but not sufficient. On system
updates, libraries get changed to new versions, desktop packages
change, packages become temporarily unusable (because they get
unconfigured/configured), daemons restart, etc.

I don't want my computer to dictate me if/when it wants to get updates
applied. Even if tries to hide the update process (which would make
the upgrade breakage even more unexpected).

Martin

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