since disabling extras dev and testing it is a lot quicker but there should be a better way. Users wishing to utilise either of those repos should not have to put up with appalling waits to access software.

It probably would be a little more bearable is updates wasn't as slow. But even after the app manager informs you that there are updates available - presumably the same check has been run in the background - it seems to need to do the check all over again if you elect to install the updates.

Even when used when connected to wifi it takes just as long so can't be contributed to slow connection.