On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 11:07:57AM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2016-12-09 6:42 GMT+01:00 Josh Triplett <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:48:50 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?LEDUQUE_Micka=C3=ABl?= > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Icons are really big (6M, unacceptable), but metadata itself is not bad: > >> 1.7M. > >> > >> While waiting for this issue to be fixed, I'd like to disable automatic > >> download of these data, how do i do that ? > > > > You can delete /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50appstream to prevent apt from > > downloading this data. > > If you do so, please keep in mind that GNOME Software / KDE Discover / > Isenkram and potentially other stuff will stop working or stop working > properly, so you might decide to just remove that stuff completely > instead of delivering a broken user experience.
gnome/gnome-core depend on GNOME Software, making it hard to remove without losing the benefit of the metapackages.
