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Comment by abjorn | Hacker News Reader

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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