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Wish there was a way of opt'ing-out without having to set an env var for every session .. is there some brew place to put ENV vars?

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That's what ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or (whatever it is for your shell) is for.

Yeah, I don't want to do that every single time I put home-brew on a machine somewhere, for every single user.

Doesn't it have its own global config? I confess that I'm too miffed by this intrusion in my privacy to be bothered to find out ..

Are you perhaps looking for /etc/profile.

Seeing as it's just an environment variable for your shell, look for a way to set global environment variables.

Put it in ~/.profile ?

add this to shell profile file: export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

pls go ahead and read the first response:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/117467/how-to-perman...

This is a very single-user-centric view. Some of us have Macs with many hundreds of users.

And so .. It is too invasive of my .bashrc/.profile that I have to use it to disable spy activity. I'd rather brew just have its own flag somewhere that says "Don't ever send analytics, ever, for any user on this system.."

Maybe put it in /etc/bashrc ?

Maybe not have to pollute files just to not be spied on, hmm.. I'm sure brew has the cleverness to keep this configuration option in its own tree.

Shove it in your .bashrc, or equivalent for your shell of choice.

Couldn't you just put it in your .bashrc?

For every user on this machine? On every Mac in the house? Meh.

What I want:

  "brew disable analytics"

There, now I don't have to think about it any more, nor maintain a .profile/.bashrc, nor do it every single time for every user.

You would still need to do it for every user, anytime you create a new one. I fail to see how that's any different from, say `echo "export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1" >> .bashrc`

Of course, the better alternative IS for it to be opt-in, which it should be.

This:

>>>`echo "export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1" >> .bashrc`

.. makes me responsible for it. This:

>>> brew analytics no-never

.. makes brew responsible for it. There is a big difference. Some of us don't want to have to maintain yet another .bashrc file tweak just to have a safe and sane environment.

I hope the homebrew guys will pay attention to this issue.

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