DNF: why does it refresh metadata all the time

[Mat Booth]

On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:

>
> Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01:
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith
> > <jsmith at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> Whether you like it or not, one of the most common complaints about yum
> >> (especially from people coming from another package management system)
> is
> >> that it seems slow because of the necessity to download the metadata.
>  The
> >> DNF developers -- in trying to address this common complaint -- had
> solved
> >> it by handling metadata in a different way.  They've also added
> settings so
> >> that power users like you and I can tune it to better fit our particular
> >> needs.
> >>
> >>> and *no* traffic is not cheap everywhere, by far not
> >>
> >> I probably understand this better than a lot of people on this list, as
> I've
> >> been on a bandwidth-limited connection for the past nine years.  Only
> in the
> >> past month have I been able to get high speed internet in my home that
> >> wasn't limited to a few gigabytes per month.  So yes, I completely
> >> understand that traffic isn't cheap (or fast) everywhere.
> >
> > It should be at least smart enough to not do it on mobile broadband
> > (like packagekit does)
>
> how should it do that?
>
> it's imagination that any software knows anything about the internet
> connection
> even 11 years ago with a 56k modem that access was shared for my LAN and so
> the only thing the notebook knew about the inernet was "appears to be slow"
>
>
IIRC, NetworkManager's DBus API should be able to give you that information.

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Mat Booth
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