new feature - apt speedup

[Szenasi Tamas <sztamas@alba.sch.bme.hu>]

Hi,

I don't know whether i am sending this to the right place.

When you run apt-get upgrade,
update-menus runs many times, and one would be enough.

Quick hack isn't possible by just aliasing update-menus,
renaming the binary is not the nicest method.

Any thoughts about this?

Possibilities: 1. running dpkg with a switch
			dpkg --no-update-menus
			dpkg --apt
			dpkg --apt-installing-more-than-five-packages
	and dpkg could handle the problem by aliasing - i hope

               2. setting up update-menus, so that when a file
		  exist, or when its config file says so,
                  update-menus wouldn't continue.

At the end, of course, apt should run update-menus.

What's about the other update-.... things?

Please CC me too.

						Tamas