On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 01:36:46PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
The value is used here: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/blob/master/backends/hif/pk-backend-hi... -- nothing ever changes the default value. If you can give me a good use case on why this should be configurable, then I can add it to PackageKit.conf, but I'm not sure I can come up with one.
I've been at places where this was dictated by IT policy. I'm not sure that's a _good_ reason or not, and possibly lack of an option would result in lack of mostly-pointless policy.
The main reasonable choices I can see are: none (well, except you have to keep the running one, so two), some arbitrary smallish middle number, and "I'm not worred about disk space keep 'em all".