>From what I read, the metrics accumulation has an option to turn off the 
>collection, as well as the transmission


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  On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 8:53 p.m., Michael Catanzaro<mcatanz...@redhat.com> 
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On Thu, Jul 6 2023 at 11:08:15 PM +0200, Björn Persson 
<bj...@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
> As a non-user of Gnome 3 who normally never runs any Gnome 3 settings
> programs, I get the impression that Fedora 40 will begin accumulating
> unused metrics somewhere in the filesystem. To prevent a constantly
> growing waste of storage space, I'll have to run one of two Gnome 3
> settings programs – which may or may not require starting a Gnome 3
> desktop session – and find the right switch to either turn on 
> uploading
> or turn off collection. I'll have to remember to do that after
> upgrading around a year from now, and also on any new installations in
> the distant future.
> 
> If my impression is wrong, then the change proposal needs to be 
> amended.

Well this change proposal is for Fedora Workstation specifically. 
That's in the title. :) I would envision installing 
eos-event-recorder-daemon via a Recommends: from the 
gnome-control-center and gnome-initial-setup packages (and probably 
also by adding it to the workstation-product comps group), so if you 
don't have gnome-initial-setup or gnome-control-center installed, you 
wouldn't get in on upgrade. I'm not sure whether I want to amend this 
level of detail into the change proposal in case we might want to 
change the specifics of how it gets installed, but that's just to give 
you an idea of what I'm thinking currently. Certainly the metrics 
components should not be installed for non-GNOME users as part of this 
change proposal.

However, I've heard that Fedora KDE might also be interested in adding 
metrics once we have this working in Workstation. But that would be up 
to the people contributing to Fedora KDE and would need to be proposed 
separately.

I think eos-event-recorder-daemon uses some sort of ring buffer to 
eventually discard old events, so that storage space does not increase 
forever and should not become an issue? But please don't quote me on 
this; I have a lot of comments to respond to, and I'm not super 
familiar with the code, and I don't want to dive in to look at how it 
works right now. If there's really an issue with space growing without 
bound, then that's a bug we should fix, but I don't think it's so.

(BTW, the GNOME 3 era concluded with the release of GNOME 40 in Fedora 
34, so I wouldn't except Fedora users to still be using GNOME 3. :)

Michael
> 

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