On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Ian Jackson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? :)
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