GNU bug report logs - #77734
[android] 30.1; provide option to restrict mobile data or wifi on demand only

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: జిందం వాఐి <jindam.vani <at> disroot.org>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:20:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 77734 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jindam.vani <at> disroot.org
Subject: bug#77734: [android] 30.1; provide option to restrict mobile data or wifi on demand only
Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 11:53:25 +0300

> Cc: 77734 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> 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.
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