From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Rader, David" <davidr(at)openscg(dot)com>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: patch - BigSQL packages on Download |
Date: | 2016-05-03 18:42:41 |
Message-ID: | FFD16CA1-E3C8-4945-992B-A8689679D536@pgadmin.org |
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> On 3 May 2016, at 17:31, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On 05/03/2016 02:00 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> In general though, I do not feel it's appropriate to list these
>> packages at all, given that they make silent outbound HTTP calls
>> during installation, without the user being made aware of that or
>> being given any option to object. That could easily be considered a
>> privacy issue by people, one that may come back to bite us for hosting
>> the downloads on our primary listing.
>
> I was under the impression that it is not in fact silent and that the page says what it is doing?
Perhaps you should try it? It was obvious you hadn't the last time you made various assertions about the distribution in comparison to EDBs.
Uninformed comments don't help anyone here.
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