Subject: Re: bug#77734: [android] 30.1; provide option to restrict mobile data or wifi on demand only

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 11:53:25 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 03:38:24 -0400
> 
> Could someone plesse explain the issue that is at stake here?

"M-x list-packages" by default downloads up-to-date data about
available packages from ELPA and other archives.  The OP says that on
a smartphone this should optionally done only when the connection is
via WiFi, as opposed to via the cellular network.

The Android developer replied that this is a setting of the OS, not of
Emacs.

Btw, list-packages can be invoked with a prefix argument, in which
case it will not download the data to refresh the packages' menu.