From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2023-04-25 11:29, Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   No such setting in XFCE.   
      
      Refresh cache  (always/every hour/every 8 hours/twice a   
   day/*daily*/weekly/never)   
      
      [ ] Use mobile connection   
      
     Since "every user" is "me" on this machine, I can live   
   > with the shame.   
      
   It is a matter of principle for me, but I do have some other users. Same   
   person (me), but different purposes. Some times I lend a machine to a   
   guest. It is pointless to have all of them doing the check.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   In Windows 10 you can say that the connection is metered, somewhere.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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