Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo hardware database
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:54:29
Message-Id: ca0af47e-f920-92d6-3ec1-c21c436c9ad3@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo hardware database by Alexey Eschenko
1 Alexey Eschenko wrote:
2 > It would probably be better to add "--no-*" options for each probe
3 > section. For example:
4 >
5 > --no-fstab
6 > --no-lsblk
7 > --no-xorg-conf
8 > --no-xorg-log
9 > --no-dmesg
10 >
11 > And to have the page in the hw-probe wiki where these sections (and
12 > disable parameters) are documented. And then link to this page could be
13 > added to the Privacy section in the README.md.
14 >
15 > So in the result each user will be able to determine which data he want
16 > to share without modifying probe files.
17 >
18 >
19
20
21 I agree.  You have two items in your list that concern me but the rest
22 are OK.  Thing is, someone else may have a different list and it could
23 continue for others.  The list could be exhausting before to long. 
24
25 Your way tho makes it so that one can use the options needed for their
26 case.  Maybe even on a specific system at that. 
27
28 Still, deleting the files before uploading could also be documented as
29 well. 
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-)  :-)