Comment 2 for bug 856533

In the future apt-brtfs could be the way to go - taking snaphsots of the system and reverting the state on broken operations. But also a problem for systems with /home and /root on the same parition.

We cannot safely kill the maintainer script. We can only try to recover as goog as possible. Running FixIncompleteInstall and FixBrokenDepends (dpkg --configure -a and apt-get install -f)

On older systems a large installation can take longer than 30 minutes. E.g. think of people running on USB drives.