FS#62156 - request to make dependency deepin-anything optional

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Bernhard Landauer (oberon) - Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 14:21 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 14:40 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

There have been repeated rumors that Deepin Desktop is collecting and sending data. Although this has never been proven and also officially been denied by Deepin, in my eyes the concept of deepin-anything and its imperative installation with Deepin Desktop adds to this less than ideal image.
Afaik the only purpose of this kernel-module is to enhance speed of file searches, at least that's what I gather from the README (google translate attached).

Now I must say that I am not at all happy with my system being completely searched and indexed like that and I would definitely want an option to deactivate this feature.
My understanding is further that no other parts of the Deepin environment actually need the module to work.
So I would like to request to make the installation optional.
   deepin_anything_readme_google... (4.3 KiB)
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 14:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  > no other parts of the Deepin environment actually need the module to work

No other parts of the deepin desktop depend on the module.
Comment by Robin Broda (coderobe) - Wednesday, 27 March 2019, 14:33 GMT
>There have been repeated rumors that Deepin Desktop is collecting and sending data

citation needed.

The kernel module source code is rather short, you can audit it yourself in its entirety in under 10 minutes.

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