On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 10:40:53PM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: > The daily metadata downloading can be currently turned off with a > super-secret gsettings key. It was originally only meant for the live cd > use case where we needed to turn off metadata downloads in order to > avoid filling up the ramdisk, but I have heard that people have found > this useful for other cases as well. Yeah - I had to do it, because I often use a tethered cell connection, and it was chewing through my data like crazy. > Furthermore, there's a new NetworkManager API in the works that allows > apps to determine if connections are 'metered' to avoid downloading > updates. This API actually landed in NetworkManager a few weeks ago, and > there's a plan to make use of it in gnome-software. That's great to hear. Is there any chance of this hitting F23? Definitely worth advertising as a feature (even if we're awfully late for the changes process). -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
