Re: Phoning home

[David Nusinow <dnusinow@speakeasy.net>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:44:53PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> David Nusinow wrote:
> > 
> > Yes please! I think this sort of thing could be an acceptable use of
> > debconf (preferrably at a low priority), so that users who want to
> > participate can. 
> 
> 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?

 - David Nusinow