On 8/25/23 20:24, Richard Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 16:00, Benson Muite
<benson_muite(a)emailplus.org> wrote:
> Better as optional rather than default-enabled. It would likely be
> helpful for computers in an institutional setting where the LAN is well
> controlled.
So that's the thing; if it's default disabled then I can say with
certainty that almost nobody will use it and we won't see any
reduction in network traffic at all.
a) The default time for checking for updates can be increased.
b) In some places, internet access is charged per byte downloaded, so
there will be quite some interest in local caching, and an easy to use
Squid Proxy replacement