Repeat post

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Sat Aug 8 20:18:37 UTC 2015


On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 17:54 +0930, Andrew Walton wrote:
> Quite a few people have told me that packagekit doesn't do it's own 
> downloads but here's a quick experiment you can try that says this is 
> not entirely accurate.

Of course it does its own downloads! And even if it didn't, it would
still be harsh on bandwidth: simply checking for updates requires
downloading new repo metadata, which can be big on its own.


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