> 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... This can be problematic even on an unmetered connection. An anecdotal experience: A few months back I was on a hotel wifi, I vitally needed some information quick, and the wifi simply didn't work - all web pages timed out. I was very disgruntled about a crappy hotel wifi (that used to work the day before), when in 5-10 minutes, I saw "Your updates were downloaded and are ready to install" popup. Then I realized... tried the web browser and web pages loaded normally. The wifi connection was so slow that while PackageKit was downloading updates in the background, I couldn't access the web at all. My poor experience stemmed from: a) not being informed that updates were being downloaded in the background - so I assumed the problem was elsewhere b) not being able to pause/abort background downloads - even if I had realized/figured out PackageKit was hogging the network, there'd have been no way to stop the downloads (certainly no user accessible one, and even when I tried to kill the process some time in the past, it just kept respawning) You can disregard this as a "slow hotel wifi problem only", but I live in a block of flats, the air is jammed with 20-30 wifi networks all around me, and I experience a similar situation (though not that severe) from time to time even at my home, a few meters from the AP - one full speed download can completely kill any other (my own) network traffic. Again, this would not be a problem if I a) knew about it b) could stop it. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
