Hello, I think (and a quick reading of source seems to bear this out) that that only happens when you run "cabal report". Which isn't quite undocumented - see "cabal report --help". On Wed, 1 May 2013, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote:

Hello there,

could somebody please shed some light on the following line that appeared in my ~/.cabal/config?

remote-build-reporting: anonymous

The option doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, and I'm very nervous about undocumented "remote reporting" features. I expect cabal-install to communicate only to fetch the latest package index and to upload and download packages, the former only when i actually use the "upload" command.

If it performs any other communication, please tell me how to disable it. In that case I'd also be interested in an explanation for why this was enabled in the first place. I certainly didn't enable it myself, because it would be a serious security breach in my case.

Thank you.

Greets, Ertugrul

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