On 20 June 2014 11:19, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:

>
>
> Am 20.06.2014 11:57, schrieb Mat Booth:
> > On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net <mailto:
> h.rei...@thelounge.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01:
> >     > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith
> >     > <jsm...@fedoraproject.org <mailto:jsm...@fedoraproject.org>>
> wrote:
> >     >> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald <
> h.rei...@thelounge.net <mailto:h.rei...@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
>
> from where should it get that information if your network connection is
> a Gigabit-Ethernet LAN to the router with a slow DSL upstream?
>
> your whole machine has no idea about your WAN connection
>
>

Woah there... The suggestion was to simply let it be "smart enough to not
do it on mobile broadband" to which you asked "how?"

I answered only that question.


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