On 30 October 2016 at 01:26, Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
1) Both dnf and GNOME Software / PackageKit default to performing
fairly data-hungry transactions in the background, out of the box,
without telling you about it. GNOME's is particularly bad, as it will
happily download available updates in the background, which can be
gigabytes worth of data.
If you're on an "unmetered" connection type...
'hey, do you want to turn on background update downloads'?
This needs to go to the GNOME upstream designers as a proposal, rather
than to a downstream list. We're actually working on supporting a mode
like this for Endless (i.e. we download the metadata, but not the
packages themselves) but I'm not sure we've talked about any UI to
configure it.
Richard.