On 31/10/16 11:41, Richard Hughes wrote:
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...
The problem, as I believe has been repeatedly explained, is that you
don't really have any idea whether the connection is metered. Yes you
may be trying to guess by considering things like 3G connections as
metered but that is an extremely poor proxy for whether a connection is
metered.
It's not something that can be tied to connection types anyway. A wifi
interface might be unmetered if I'm at home but metered if I'm in a cafe
or hotel. An ethernet interface might be metered at certain times of day
and not at others.
The idea that you can programatically determine, using a simple
heuristic, if a connection will be metered is just nonsense.
Tom
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