2010/5/3 Björn Persson bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se:
Thomas Janssen wrote:
Good question about on or off by default. To make sense it should be on by default.
NO! Popcon may have its uses, and I actually have it enabled on my Debian boxes, but it *must* be strictly opt-in. If it were on by default it would be spyware, and I do *not* want an operating system with spyware in it.
Well, i wouldn't call a software that counts serverside downloads of FOSS software and gives based on that downloads/installations, a popularity suggestion in packagekit, spyware. There's nothing at all that gets sent out of your box.
Remind, i'm not speaking of exactly popcon. I spoke about something in the server, just counting the download/installation (not even unique installations via some hash or whatever) and a packagekit extension that shows the count or something like stars or whatever.
So, it has to be on by default.