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[kendell clark]

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hi
You guys are awesome! If all I've heard is true, gnome 3.18 will be a
milestone, both in terms of accessibility and in terms of new
functionality. I can't wait!
Thanks
Kendell clark


Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 08/08/2015 10:18 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> To clear this up, the above is both true and untrue in a way :)
> 
> It's gnome-software that drives the periodic downloads, but the
> actual downloading is done through PackageKit.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Periodic metadata downloads can be disabled with: gsettings set
> org.gnome.software download-updates false
> 
> and reset to the default value (re-enabled) with: gsettings reset
> org.gnome.software download-updates
> 
> 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.
> 
> Look out for improvements in this area :)
> 
> 
> Hope this clears things up, Kalev
> 
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