On Mon, 2016-10-31 at 10:32 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote: > > > > On 30 October 2016 at 01:26, Adam Williamson <adamwill@fedoraprojec > > t.org> > > 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. Some sort of notification stating that it is happening with a [pause/cancel/never do this] button so you could control this in the moment. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
