[Haskell-cafe] remote-build-reporting: cabal phoning home?!

[Scott Lawrence]

Hello,

I think (and a quick reading of source seems to bear this out) that that only 
happens when you run "cabal report". Which isn't quite undocumented - see 
"cabal report --help".

On Wed, 1 May 2013, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> could somebody please shed some light on the following line that
> appeared in my ~/.cabal/config?
>
>    remote-build-reporting: anonymous
>
> The option doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, and I'm very nervous
> about undocumented "remote reporting" features.  I expect cabal-install
> to communicate only to fetch the latest package index and to upload and
> download packages, the former only when i actually use the "upload"
> command.
>
> If it performs any other communication, please tell me how to disable
> it.  In that case I'd also be interested in an explanation for why this
> was enabled in the first place.  I certainly didn't enable it myself,
> because it would be a serious security breach in my case.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Greets,
> Ertugrul
>
> -- 
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> (not to be or to be and ... that is the list monad.
>

-- 
Scott Lawrence