On 30 October 2016 at 01:26, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1) Both dnf and GNOME Software / PackageKit default to performing > fairly data-hungry transactions in the background, out of the box, > without telling you about it. GNOME's is particularly bad, as it will > happily download available updates in the background, which can be > gigabytes worth of data. If you're on an "unmetered" connection type... > 'hey, do you want to turn on background update downloads'? This needs to go to the GNOME upstream designers as a proposal, rather than to a downstream list. We're actually working on supporting a mode like this for Endless (i.e. we download the metadata, but not the packages themselves) but I'm not sure we've talked about any UI to configure it. Richard. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
