<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 June 2014 11:19, Reindl Harald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net" target="_blank">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Am 20.06.2014 11:57, schrieb Mat Booth:<br>
<div class="">> On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald <<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01:<br>
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith<br>
</div>> > <<a href="mailto:jsmith@fedoraproject.org">jsmith@fedoraproject.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jsmith@fedoraproject.org">jsmith@fedoraproject.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald <<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>>><br>
<div class="">> >> wrote:<br>
> >> Whether you like it or not, one of the most common complaints about yum<br>
> >> (especially from people coming from another package management system) is<br>
> >> that it seems slow because of the necessity to download the metadata. The<br>
> >> DNF developers -- in trying to address this common complaint -- had solved<br>
> >> it by handling metadata in a different way. They've also added settings so<br>
> >> that power users like you and I can tune it to better fit our particular<br>
> >> needs.<br>
> >><br>
> >>> and *no* traffic is not cheap everywhere, by far not<br>
> >><br>
> >> I probably understand this better than a lot of people on this list, as I've<br>
> >> been on a bandwidth-limited connection for the past nine years. Only in the<br>
> >> past month have I been able to get high speed internet in my home that<br>
> >> wasn't limited to a few gigabytes per month. So yes, I completely<br>
> >> understand that traffic isn't cheap (or fast) everywhere.<br>
> ><br>
> > It should be at least smart enough to not do it on mobile broadband<br>
> > (like packagekit does)<br>
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> how should it do that?<br>
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> it's imagination that any software knows anything about the internet connection<br>
> even 11 years ago with a 56k modem that access was shared for my LAN and so<br>
> the only thing the notebook knew about the inernet was "appears to be slow"<br>
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> IIRC, NetworkManager's DBus API should be able to give you that information<br>
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</div>from where should it get that information if your network connection is<br>
a Gigabit-Ethernet LAN to the router with a slow DSL upstream?<br>
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your whole machine has no idea about your WAN connection<br>
<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div><div></div><div><br>Woah there... The suggestion was to simply let it be "smart enough to not do it on mobile broadband" to which you asked "how?"<br><br></div>
<div>I answered only that question.<br></div><div><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Mat Booth<br><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora</a>
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