On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:44:48PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 14:47 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: > > Also, I thought it might be a good time to revisit the default update > > strategy. Right now, gnome-packagekit provides an update icon similar > > to puplet. The default configuration is to just notify the user that > > updates are available. Some people have suggested applying security > > updates automatically as the default configuration. I personally like > > the idea, but I suspect that some people will not like this behavior as > > the default. > > Given the number of updates we end up having (even just limited to > security), I suspect that this isn't a great idea from a bandwidth > perspective. For the users who lack persistent connections (and thus > tend to have lower bandwidth), they'd get online and then immediately > start having their capacity drained by downloading updates. That's why > we've kept the more conservative default of just downloading the update > information and notifying the user in the past By default the PackageKit yum backend sets a 40% bandwidth throttle. The yum dbus backend that is in the works bumps this up to 60%. I think auto-downloading updates and prompting the user to install them sounds like a pretty good default. luke -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
