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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'feedback' -> 'telemetry'?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:43:17
Message-Id: 76a0e2203a571805fddc8c29a8b0bbe22059ba4b.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'feedback' -> 'telemetry'? by Andreas Sturmlechner
1 On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 19:41 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
2 > On Monday, 13 April 2020 17:01:37 CEST Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 > > On 4/13/20 10:58 AM, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
4 > > > Going to be used by 10 packages.
5 > > >
6 > > > Description: "Send anonymized usage information to upstream so they can
7 > > > better understand our users"
8 > >
9 > > These are all really generic words that might be used by other
10 > > (non-QT/KDE) packages to mean totally different things.
11 >
12 > Less generic, if we could keep this thread about $Subject, would be
13 > 'telemetry'. Less positive also, but not as likely to be used for different
14 > purpose in the future.
15
16 Why not call it 'spyware'? ;-)
17
18 /me hides
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'feedback' -> 'telemetry'? Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>