On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:37:44AM +0200, مصعب الزعبي wrote: > My friend didn't have enabled auto-update. There was an earlier discussion here. Even without updates automatically applied, metadata about potential updates is downloaded automatically. > He completely Surprised of un-human-authorized connection by fedora. Preventing automatic system network interactions is not explicitly a project goal, and we don't have any strong guidelines on this. If you think it _should_ be, you wouldn't be alone — but on the other hand, there are strong user benefits in making sure the system is up to date, there's no waiting for metadata downloads, network connectivity is correct, and so on; so, you'll need to build a strong case that this concern is the most important. > He disabled these actions by : > sudo echo 127.0.0.1 vm3.fedora.ibiblio.org proxy3.fedoraproject.org apps.fedoraproject.org 6-55-236-85.rev.customer-net.de >> /etc/hosts Since these connections really are innocuous, this seems more likely to do harm than good, but of course your friend can do this if wanted. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
