i am a user and i am ok with opt-out if the std data that is transferd is compleatly anonymized so no sensitive data.
and if the user wants to register his/her machine pkg's more data is trasnfered thx Mario 2011/8/24 Thomas Kahle <to...@gentoo.org>: > On 13:03 Wed 24 Aug 2011, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> Am Mittwoch 24 August 2011, 12:48:35 schrieb Patrick Lauer: >> > >> > If you sneakily add something to cron.daily by default you can get >> > pretty nice coverage. But I guess anyone trying that in Gentooland will >> > meet some rather unpleasant resistance :) >> > >> >> 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. >> >> We'd get better coverage in an opt-out system than in an opt-in system. >> >> (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).) > > Sorry, but NO. If you want you can make a big noise message that asks > users to install the cron-job but opt-out is not an option here. > > > > -- > Thomas Kahle > http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/ >
