[Newbie] ubuntu's update-manager???

[David Armour]

>> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 09:12 -0700, David Armour wrote:
>>
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>>> 1. from the More Information, Please Dept... "software updates correct 
>>> errors, eliminate security vulnerabilities and provide new features" 
>>> sounds benign. the boilerplate text under "you can install X updates," 
>>> however, leaves unanswered: what's recommended? all of them? if not, 
>>> which ones can i safely / optimally ignore / apply? What contributes to 
>>> the # of updates? Can I do anything to reduce the number?
>>>       
>>> 2. when update manager says it's  ...downloading 43 of 81files? (...  26 
>>> m17s remaining) ??? ...with a 53.1Mb download size.... and it does stuff 
>>> greater or lesser than this EVERY day, what's up with that?
thank you for your replies. i'd include/link them somewhere in the 
update-manager help itself. at least i found them more helpful  than 
what's there at the moment. what's the preferred way to suggest 
something like that? it's not exactly a bug report.

 > The update-manager on Ubuntu uses a tool called Synaptic. Synaptic is 
a graphical front-end to the venerable debian tool
 > apt-get. <snip>