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List:       fedora-desktop-list
Subject:    Re: DNF and PackageKit background data usage
From:       drago01 <drago01 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-10-30 9:20:14
Message-ID: CAMqY-Fff-rimVvwzF2b5qdkaL70Dh2+sTxEOLaR5DgUOARjSmg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I kinda hate kicking off discussions like this without having a solid
> solution to propose or being able to promise to work on one, but this
> really seems important. Unfortunately I can't claim I'm gonna have time
> to do any concrete work on it, though I'd really *like* to. But I
> thought it would be worthwhile to kick around still; perhaps someone
> else will be inspired.

We should make use of this:

"We now expose information on whether a particular connection is
metered. It's intended for tools like package managers that like
pre-fetch large amount of data to be able to avoid increasing your
Mobile connectivity bills." [1]


1: https://blogs.gnome.org/lkundrak/2015/08/27/networkmanager-1-0-6-brings-metered-connections-api-and-more/
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