On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 10:40:53PM +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
The daily metadata downloading can be currently turned off with a
super-secret gsettings key. It was originally only meant for the live cd
use case where we needed to turn off metadata downloads in order to
avoid filling up the ramdisk, but I have heard that people have found
this useful for other cases as well.
Yeah - I had to do it, because I often use a tethered cell connection,
and it was chewing through my data like crazy.
Furthermore, there's a new NetworkManager API in the works that
allows
apps to determine if connections are 'metered' to avoid downloading
updates. This API actually landed in NetworkManager a few weeks ago, and
there's a plan to make use of it in gnome-software.
That's great to hear. Is there any chance of this hitting F23?
Definitely worth advertising as a feature (even if we're awfully late
for the changes process).
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader