On 2021-01-16 05:55:48, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi anarcat, > > And thanks for the swift answer. > > Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> (2021-01-14): >> I guess that if it's made clear in the package description, it's fair >> to phone home by default. After all, you could argue you opt in by >> installing the package, and can still opt out. > > Yeah, I've tried to make that pretty obvious. Since it doesn't seem > entirely out of line, I think I'll go with this approach. > >> Or it could be split into a separate binary package which would >> explicitly act as an opt-in? > > I think I'd rather avoid having to handle different binaries to > distinguish between those two modes.
Oh I didn't mean *binaries* (e.g. /bin/foo and /bin/bar) but different binary *packages* (e.g. crowdsec and crowdsec-phones-home). The latter could have a special config file that would get dropped somewhere and enable the possibly controversial behavior. > Upstream already has a wizard to detect various services and perform > some configuration accordingly. I haven't dived into it yet, but it > could be a nice basis for some debconf prompt(s), so that one can > dpkg-reconfigure at will for both the “which mode do you want to be > in?” and the “which services do you want to handle?” aspects. I was arguing against debconf and for just a different package, but I guess debconf would definitely work too! :) > We will likely make progress on further integration next week. If we > indeed rely on debconf, that would also mean that people wanting to > install crowdsec in some automated/non-interactive fashion could just > preseed some setting to make sure the right mode is picked from the > get-go. (No pun intended, they just write themselves…) go get? get go? :) makes sense, thanks! a. -- Everyone is a terrorist. You're just not pissed enough.
