please support parallel operation

[Seth Arnold]

Hello, please consider supporting multiple package install processes simultaneously, similar to make's -j command line option.

Computers are getting more processors rather than faster processors at this point, and this trend is likely to continue.

When doing package builds on my computer I notice that during the package installs, my CPU rarely goes above 3% utilization because only a single core is in use. iostat -dmx 1 reported mostly 4-45% disk utilization, with a mode around 25%. This machine is mostly idle for most of a package build, because apt and dpkg are essentially single-threaded.

Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

I can tell you that this will never even happen. Too many things can go wrong with this.