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From: Mario Fetka <mario.fetka@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:01:12
Message-Id: CAEiG6VTwdNyQJtw-aym8t3QXP-dwZjDUmV8iTZfkL6OPBnpvQg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoostats, SoC 2011 by Thomas Kahle
1 i am a user and i am ok with opt-out if the std data that is transferd
2 is compleatly anonymized
3 so no sensitive data.
4
5 and if the user wants to register his/her machine pkg's more data is trasnfered
6
7 thx
8 Mario
9
10 2011/8/24 Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>:
11 > On 13:03 Wed 24 Aug 2011, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
12 >> Am Mittwoch 24 August 2011, 12:48:35 schrieb Patrick Lauer:
13 >> >
14 >> > If you sneakily add something to cron.daily by default you can get
15 >> > pretty nice coverage. But I guess anyone trying that in Gentooland will
16 >> > meet some rather unpleasant resistance :)
17 >> >
18 >>
19 >> Of course, we could place it in some blatantly obvious way into a default configuration, together with a big fat message what it does and how to quickly disable it.
20 >>
21 >> We'd get better coverage in an opt-out system than in an opt-in system.
22 >>
23 >> (First idea- package is pulled in by a default-on useflag and installs itself into cron.daily. BEFORE it runs the first time it outputs said message and asks for permission to proceed (which cannot be done in the cron job obviously but we'd find a way).)
24 >
25 > Sorry, but NO.  If you want you can make a big noise message that asks
26 > users to install the cron-job but opt-out is not an option here.
27 >
28 >
29 >
30 > --
31 > Thomas Kahle
32 > http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/
33 >