On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 08:55 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jared K. Smith
> <jsm...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> if *that* is what is supposed to make DNF faster it's just a lie
> >
> >
> > This is not the only thing that DNF does differently to try to make package
> > installations and updates go faster (or appear to go faster).  Calling the
> > developers liers doesn't help the situation any.
> >
> >>
> >> if i am really interested in updates now i do "yum clean metadata && yum
> >> upgrade"
> >> for many years simply because you don't know how accurat you metadata are
> >
> >
> > Sure, but you have to understand -- you're a power user.  You know enough to
> > do this in yum for your particular use case, which means you probably know
> > enough to change the DNF settings with regards to cron-based metadata
> > retrieval.  What I think you're missing (and frankly, seem to miss in the
> > lot of fedora-devel discussions you take part in) is that Fedora isn't
> > engineered around *your* particular needs.  We do things mostly by
> > consensus, and aim to make it a pleasant experience for the *average* user
> > (or whatever we have in the Fedora community that approximates an average
> > user), and not just for power users with very specific needs and
> > requirements.
> >
> > 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).

Python + D-Bus example for detecting WWAN NetworkManager 0.9+ is here:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python/dbus/is-wwan-default.py

Dan


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