> It’s gnome-software in sid, or g-s-d in jessie, querying PackageKit for > updates. > The default policy is to not schedule any downloads when running on > battery or on a modem connection.
Which is not enough IMO. (W)LAN connections cannot be expected to not carry a penalty for download volume. Just think about the now standard way of going on-line while traveling, making your cell play access point. And at least in my area of the world no flat rate is really flat, at least it will be slowed down to crazy low numbers if you reach a certain threshold. Even worse, if you're roaming it'll cost a fortune. Also you may be on a solid flat rate that just has not good bandwidth and this automatic process takes everything away from you and you don't even know but instead blame the other people on the network. In my opinion the only option we have, is to make it configurable or, as I said before, add a huge and very big warning to the package. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael.meskes at gmail dot com VfL Borussia! Força Barça! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
