Repeat post

[Matthew Miller]

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
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader