On 20 June 2014 10:19, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > Am 20.06.2014 08:55, schrieb drago01: > > 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: > >> 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) > > how should it do that? > > it's imagination that any software knows anything about the internet > connection > even 11 years ago with a 56k modem that access was shared for my LAN and so > the only thing the notebook knew about the inernet was "appears to be slow" > > IIRC, NetworkManager's DBus API should be able to give you that information.
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