From: hyperspace.flyover@vogon.gov.invalid   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2023-04-25 08:45, Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:   
   >> Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>> On 2023-04-24 12:45, Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:   
   >>>> This is about the process which runs automatically under KDE.   
   >>>> It can be configured to run Daily, Weekly or Monthly, it can also be   
   >>>> started manually.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In my case I have a package which I do not want to update (I have   
   >>>> set the appropriate flag using YaST but "Software Updates" ignores   
   >>>> that). This means it is sitting there a lot of the time saying "I   
   >>>> have an update", annoying but no big deal.   
   >>>   
   >>> Uninstall it.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Thank you for your helpful suggestion, I suppose I could go into YaST   
   >> and see what the dependencies are but now I have a - hopefully -   
   >> better idea.   
   >> I have set the frequency to "Weekly" and will run it manually a couple   
   >> of minutes before I want to close the machine down.   
   >   
   > I uninstall it, because I object to the default that every user can see   
   > and trigger updates. It also is not a good idea to have it by default on   
   > a laptop that can be used in metered Internet connections.   
   >   
   > Worse, Gnome had the trick to download the things in advance, by   
   > default, before you accepted them, with the goal of saving time when you   
   > decided to click "update".   
   >   
   > If you go the uninstall route, you also have mark it blacklisted or   
   > banned, or a dependency would install it again.   
   >   
      
   One of the settings controls downloads over metered connections, the   
   default is OFF.  Since "every user" is "me" on this machine, I can live   
   with the shame.   
   It could be worse, Windows 10 (and presumably 11) don't even ask.   
   Updates take several hours on my Windows machine, basically because I   
   hardly ever boot Windows instead of Linux there.   
      
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