On 10/30/2016 02:26 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > There's two things I think are somewhat unfortunate here: > > 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. DNF only updates its metadata caches (on a > systemd timer), but even that could be behaviour that users in certain > circumstances really really do not want. > > 2) There is no particularly obvious or visible mechanism for a 'typical > user' (or, if you prefer, many of the target 'personas' for our > flavors) to configure this behaviour...and you have to figure out two > completely *different* configuration mechanisms in order to shut off > both.
Add to this that these caches seem to be never cleaned, so that they
grow up very large up to the point they prevent updating the system. I
just found that the packagekit cache on my machine is about 7Gb !!!
Probably because I do use packageit at all (dnf cache is much smaller at
~700 Mb).
A common cache, would be very welcome if possible. Less time, less
download volume, less used space.
Theo.
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