Re: DNF and PackageKit background data usage

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> On 10/30/2016 03:26 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> Fedora updates so often that attempts to pre-download anything updates 
> related are pointless. Chances are you
> a) waste gobs of bandwidth downloading that changing data over and over 
> again without ever using it
> b) when you actually *do* use it, it's typically already outdated and 
> the update you're looking for isn't there, so you need to force manual 
> refresh anyway

>From my experience, this is just plain wrong. Even with updates-testing enabled there is hardly any package getting updated twice a week. And updating your OS less than once a week is careless if you run it every single or second day.

So, no, automatic update downloads are the only right thing to do if you can't guarantee having no security bugs.

> On a related note, why on earth is the main Fedora repo set to expire every two weeks? (and its -source and -debuginfo every week??) It's not supposed to change *ever* for a released distro version now is it?

+1
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