updates requiring keyboard input

[Colin Law]

On 20 March 2015 at 06:52, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 00:14 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>> I went back and found your other thread and you said the updater is showing
>> the changelogs, and from your description it sounds like you are talking
>> about update-manager.
>
> Hm. Now I'm not sure any more! It's the one that has popped up
> automatically since I first installed 14.04. I may have to wait until it
> pops up again :-) Running "update-manager" from the command line has no
> visible effect, and I note that one instance is already running, so I
> think that "update-manager" may be identifying itself as "Software
> Updater".
>
>> Using that tool I find I have to click about three times to even DISPLAY
>> the changelogs
>
> Yes - once to drop down the sublist, once to select the item, and once
> to click on "Technical details". But that is all *before* the download
> begins and thus well before the updates get actually applied. The input
> is requested as part of applying the updates, not as part of downloading
> them (sorry, should have made that clear).

Is it only if you view the technical details that it waits for input?

Colin