Install Time and 17.04

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#1

Just curious if this has been discussed. I’m writing this because it’s hitting me now on a VM install of 17.04 beta^H^H^H^H alpha. :grinning:

Dang, Ubiquity sure does a lot of “Preparing to Remove…”/“Removing…” of packages taking a LOT of time. It’s not new to 17.04 by any means - just the most recent. :slight_smile:

Is it because it’s structured like a blacklist instead of whitelist? It used to be dominated by languages but I see quite a bit not involving languages this time around and a huge amount of “(amd64)” packages.

#2

My ubiquity was blank during this last install (a few days ago).

#3

Really? I just ran the "try" path so I can get off 800x600 and it's anything but blank. I did a little test but in a VM with a snapshot - so disk I/O is slow. Installation took roughly 20 minutes and I took screen snapshots at significant changes so I can get the timestamps. The approximate results...

7 minutes Copying files
4 minutes through installing grub
9 minutes of this "removing" period. Three examples below.

There is likely a good reason it takes so much time removing things. But what? Inquiring minds are curious. :slight_smile:

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