Re: DNF and PackageKit background data usage

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----- Original Message -----
> On 31 Oct 2016, at 11:41, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> 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...
> > 
> 
> How does a connection become "unmetered"? It can't just be on interface type,
> as I have metered connections on all interface types, so presumably you use
> some form of web service to distinguish "metered" from "unmetered" based on
> a list of known IP blocks?
> 
> Or do you simply assume that all connections are metered until the user says
> otherwise?

They're metered unless you either tag them as unmetered, or hints are provided
to NetworkManager by what you're connected to. For example, Android tethering
is automatically tagged as metered as Android provides a hint in its DHCP
configuration.
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