Wineconf follow up: Wine Usage Data Collection

[Zachary Goldberg]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:06 PM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Zachary Goldberg <zgold at bluesata.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You guys need to realize that in any given day we, as developers,
>>> destroy and recreate wineprefixes several times.  Having a popup for
>>> every wineprefix creation will be extremely annoying.  If this can't
>>> be done behind the scenes, say as a winecfg option, then I wouldn't
>>> expect to get much support for this.
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Hawkins
>>>
>>
>> I don't see why it would present any technical problem to have a way
>> to disable this.. wineprefixcreate --quiet?
>>
>
> Because then the policy is opt-out instead of opt-in.  Also,
> wineprefixcreate is run automatically now anytime a wineprefix is
> created; how will you handle the quiet option for those cases?  I
> don't have a problem with someone figuring out a way to get usage
> statistics and implementing it as long as it doesn't change our work
> flow.
>
> --
> James Hawkins
>

so make it default not show, but allow distros to reverse that.