6 Dec
2008
6 Dec
'08
11:59 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Ivy Foster <joyfulgirl@archlinux.us> wrote:
- Including a new, well-publicized (so people know they can turn it off) function in pacman that would (optionally, default=yes) to automagically send in installed/removed pkgs (and I suppose a complete list the first time it's run) to something like Debian's popularity-contest server.
Just because this one keeps coming up, I need to say this again (and again, and again). Functionality such as this will never ever make it into pacman. Ever. I know I'm speaking for Dan here, but I'm confident he feels the same. Pacman will never ever upload anything such as usage statistics. Pacman is a package manager. External scripts can and should handle this.