From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QwajD-00077m-Ii for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:16:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7F8F21C259; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from patrick-nagel.net (patrick-nagel.net [178.63.64.58]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94EE421C024 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E5658FA.70301@patrick-nagel.net> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:15:22 +0800 From: Patrick Nagel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110708 Thunderbird/5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoostats, SoC 2011 References: <20110822212030.GA8233@felicia> <201108231816.51076.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <20110824103135.GH20891@denkmatte.private.newton.cam.ac.uk> <4E54D703.9090806@gentoo.org> <4E56435B.6090206@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4E56435B.6090206@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cefcd58634a014ef39ba1b6e9370d79c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5WWPoACgkQyYHmhobjRtSwewCgyJzgsLLvjfZpX5vg8XcxkNMb tg8AoIkHz1z6b9DxTrnJxe3YyTDMOYsr =ZKYx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----