'Anyone who says "full stop" is an idiot, full stop.' One of the more common ways to get audacity (via your distribution) happens to [often] not provide your/a

'Anyone who says "full stop" is an idiot, full stop.' One of the more common ways to get audacity (via your distribution) happens to [often] not provide your/a user agent string to the audacity developers, nor do they get a copy of your ip. In the context of a distribution: the auto-update mechanism is also problematic and needs to be disabled at install time. And all of this is a) reinventing the wheel. b ) breaks the assumption that the computer will only connect to the network with a human-in-the-loop. c) completely unnecessary in the first place. Let the distributions keep track of issues and report them upstream.