Re: Phoning home
David Nusinow wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:44:53PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>>
>> The problem I see here is that admin != user in all the situations.
>> IMO it should ask, or at least warn, the user and not the admin.
>> Because in the end is the user's privacy the one affected, not the
>> administrator's.
>
> You want each package to notify each user? How do you recommend this
> actually be carried out? Patching every program?
Using the program's settings facilities.
All it has to do is check if the user has already been warned and if not do
it, of course only when the program is run.
If there's no easy way to do it then just for the sake of simplicity a patch
rewriting the 'phoning home' function should be written.
IMHO that sounds more reasonable than letting the admin decide about the
users privacy.
>
> - David Nusinow
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