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#1 2025-02-26 09:43:14

jronald
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[SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

pkg: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/vcpkg/

default with telemetry

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#2 2025-02-26 10:18:52

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … e=heads#L5
What about not shitposting if you're too lazy to check yourself?
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#3 2025-02-26 10:21:09

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

I've checked, but only in PKGBUILD.

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#4 2025-02-26 10:43:23

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

After installation, VCPKG_DISABLE_METRICS doesn't take effect instantly.

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#5 2025-02-26 10:51:08

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

Mod note: Moving to Creating & Modifying Packages


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#6 2025-02-26 11:37:55

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

It adds a script into /etc/profile.d which only takes after a relog/login shell being invoked.

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#7 2025-02-26 12:36:10

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

V1del wrote:

It adds a script into /etc/profile.d which only takes after a relog/login shell being invoked.

So it's better to execute

vcpkg.sh

when installing.

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#8 2025-02-26 14:18:07

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

That will only affect the local shell - there's no sane way to "inject" that environment into (all) running processes (shells), but a re-login will do.

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#9 2025-02-26 16:36:22

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

patching the source codes is possible, https://github.com/playgithub/vcpkg-too … 7231f79d09

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#10 2025-02-26 17:13:35

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Re: [SOLVED] what about make vcpkg disable telemetry by default

And very unlikely to happen.
If anything the binary could be shadowed w/ a script that sets the environment.

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