On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 00:20 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@gnome.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 14:48 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> > > Automatic updates of apps is a frequent request I hear from users. If
> > > they use Firefox Nightly for Flatpak which gets updated every day,
> > > they
> > > just get tired of updating it manually.
> >
> > I have no opinion on automatic updates, but we can never in any
> > circumstance prompt the user to install updates every single day.
> > That's crazy. If they want to check daily, fine, but prompts are
> > supposed to be weekly.
> >
> > Michael
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> In my opinion, we shouldn't even prompt the user to update apps if updating
> the app doesn't require a reboot - we should just update.
> Android updates apps automatically if you're on wifi and charging, I think
> it works well. Users can disable auto-update for individual apps if they
> need to.

This is the kind of thinking that made my laptop blow through my
cellphone data plan limit in about fifteen minutes while I was
tethering.
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Well, that's why we should make sure to not do it on metered connections. There are all kinds of heuristics we could use to detect a metered connection (idk which ones are actually implemented, if any), and there should also be a checkbox to mark a connection as metered if the detection fails, imo. NetworkManager already has the relevant API for this.

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