Bug#671440: pdiffs
On 15 June 2013 07:11, David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
>> * Add some kind of profile support, so I can tell apt when it'm in a
>> bandwidth constrained environment.
>
> You can build a config file and load it with -c ~/constrained.conf
> That should be pretty much the same as a profile.
> Or do some magic with an ifupdown script maybe.
>
Right, and that is all the support apt needs. Using ifupdown/nm/etc.
to enable and disable such a config file is the best way to go. Those
systems are precisely where network profile management should go and
indeed are set up to handle just that.
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