Comment 5 for bug 147928

I agree that this is an annoyance and a lot of packages ask too many questions. However as Michael Vogt pointed out Update manager is really just the messanger. As I understand it (and I may be wrong) the questions come from the configuration scripts contained in the individual packages. So to ask all the questions at the start would require a central database of all the questions that might ever be asked by all the packages in the ubuntu repositories and which package they come from. This would then have to be checked against the list packages a given user actually has installed and the relevant questions extracted. With nearly 25000 packages available in the ubuntu repositories this is obviously not trivial