I can think of cases when this behavior can be really disruptive too. <br><br>Think about how annoying it would be if update manager was launching while:<br><ul><li>Watching a movie</li><li>Playing a full screen game</li><li>
Any time spent in MythTV or boxee<br></li></ul>Ubuntu is very popular for people creating homemade multimedia appliances, and I can see this behavior being a major complaint.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/20 Martin Pitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.pitt@ubuntu.com">martin.pitt@ubuntu.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Sam Tygier [2009-02-20 12:42 +0000]:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> using nice and ionice maybe it is possible for the updates to have no<br>
> noticeable impact on other tasks.<br>
<br>
</div>That's a good part of the problem, but not sufficient. On system<br>
updates, libraries get changed to new versions, desktop packages<br>
change, packages become temporarily unusable (because they get<br>
unconfigured/configured), daemons restart, etc.<br>
<br>
I don't want my computer to dictate me if/when it wants to get updates<br>
applied. Even if tries to hide the update process (which would make<br>
the upgrade breakage even more unexpected).<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
Martin<br>
<br>
--<br>
Martin Pitt | <a href="http://www.piware.de" target="_blank">http://www.piware.de</a><br>
Ubuntu Developer (<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">www.ubuntu.com</a>) | Debian Developer (<a href="http://www.debian.org" target="_blank">www.debian.org</a>)<br>
<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">--<br>
ubuntu-devel mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mario Limonciello<br><a href="mailto:superm1@gmail.com">superm1@gmail.com</a><br>