Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoostats, SoC 2011

[Patrick Nagel <mail@patrick-nagel.net>]

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Hi,

On 2011-08-25 20:43, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On 25/08/2011 11:42 ??, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 08/24/2011 01:48 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote:
>>> [...] 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 :)
> 
>> emerge always asks me after a world update whether I want to "auto 
>> clean packages" with a yes/no prompt.  I wouldn't be bad if once a 
>> month or whatever it would ask me whether I want to upload my stats.
>> Gentoostats should probably become a runtime dep of Portage itself by
>> default, but not used automatically.
> 
> I like your idea and people seem to like making things complicated. 
> Simple solution:
> 
> opt-in
> 
> How: Display a warning after an emerge -u{DNav} world. Let user disable
> this warning by using a special variable in make.conf
> 
> STATS_ENABLE="no".
> 
> By default, this variable will be "yes" on base/ profiles

That sounds perfect to me.

The prompt should offer three options:

 [s]end the data directly
 s[h]ow me the data*
 s[k]ip

 You can disable this prompt by having either 'SEND_STATS="yes"' (to always
 send) or 'SEND_STATS="no" (to never send) in your /etc/make.conf.

*) And in the next step, after showing the data set(s): Send? [y/n]

(why do all those words have to start with an 's'??)

Cheers,
Patrick.

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