Autopack over dumb transports causes excess use of bandwidth.

[Martin Pool]

It would be worth filing, or subscribing to, bugs about this, even if
you're planning to tackle them yourself.

I think a configuration option to disable or tweak autopacking may be
good - even though we want the default behaviour to be sensible, there
may be special cases.  For instance in Australia it is common for
people to have both peak-time and off-peak bandwidth quotas, and they
might want to schedule an explicit repack in the middle of the night.
Or you could repack when on a cheaper/faster network.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>