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. -- Mat Booth http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
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