until then you could right click the apper icon and select to disable
it…then, sometime after boot and things have settled down you
could re-enable it…
note, if you have not adjusted your daily cron time, then it is set
to the default of (i forget exactly, but i think it is) 2 AM…and,
if you (say) wake up and boot up at 7 AM cron will ‘see’ it needs to
run and then run the at 7:15 (if you boot at 7:13 it will run at 7:15
along with apper, and dropbox, and tracker, and Akonadi, and
Kpackagekit, and Nepomuk, and Zeitgeist)
since the daily will run either on the specified time (2 AM) or on
the first 15, 30, 45, or 00 after your boot…then you will always
suffer a slowdown when all of that stuff tries to run at the same time.
none of those run when i boot…(cron is set to do daily during my
normal lunchtime, and all the others are either uninstalled or disabled)
Packman delivers more updates than any other repo enabled here, but not daily although there are busier periods like very recently. The default frequency to check for updates is daily (which I kept). You can change that setting e.g. weekly (via KDE System Settings etc.), and of course then you will have a longer update session.
The larger number of updates are directly related to the highly modular design and structure of linux multimedia components. Specialization by developers tends to increase functionality, complexity, and maintenance. More product choice leads to a greater number of installed packages, generating lots of updates.
I haven’t found Apper’s service provision particularly annoying, or preventing my notebook from multitasking. I realised how spoilt we are, when I returned to Win7 today for one of the occasional sessions. There were a few sizeable updates, but oh so slow downloading and installing, then all that restarting nonsense, followed by another security update plus another restart. Now that really is ANNOYING.
Only a good idea if it’s optional, in other words, an adjustable delay including no delay. In this case, one size doesn’t fit all. I prefer to get the updates done before using the system for real work. When using Evergreen with Gnome 2, there seems to be a built-in delay before the notifier appears, maybe longer than 10 minutes, usually at the worst possible moment!
