Re: Bug#426581: meshlab - anyone still working on this

["Paolo Cignoni" <cignoni@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Ian Jackson
<ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Paolo Cignoni writes ("Re: Bug#426581: meshlab - anyone still working on this"):
>
> > Ok, I understand your point, I respect and, as i told you since
>  > beginning, i agree on disabling it for very pure, and ethically
>  > coherent distributions like Debian.
>  >
>  > As you understood, this data collecting it is something that i need
>  > for supporting the meshlab development, so i would like to find a
>  > solution that, make as easy as possible for debian to get rid of this
>  > (a bit nasty) phoning home, but i seems to me a bit silly to disable
>  > this feature for less coherent distributions like ubuntu for example.
>
>  When we make modifications in Debian to make the software work the way
>  we feel it ought to, we don't in general make those modifications
>  conditional on the package being built strictly for Debian.  Indeed,
>  this is one of the reasons why people choose to derive from Debian.
>  So I don't think this is the right approach.
>

Ok , got even this point.
So adding a compile option disabling the default home phoning is
probably the best idea.

 At least can I ask for enabling at the first run?
Or even this is evil? :)