Comment 0 for bug 1236531

During instance boot, cloud-init installs packages (if instructed by the user).
During instance boot, there is no state of the system that the user cares about.

I'd like to use eatmydata for apt-get install at that point, as it is dramatically faster than apt-get even with --force-unsafe-io.

From an ubuntu perspective, this change would mean:
 a.) depending on eatmydata
 b.) MIR for eatmydata
 c.) fixing eatmydata's relationship with sysvinit scripts. The thing to fix there is that if you 'eatmydata apt-get install some-service' and some-service starts a daemon, the daemon will inherit the LD_PRELOAD which is most likely not desired.