Stop bower from asking for statistics when installing

Question

I'm trying to set up an automated package build for an app which uses bower. When it gets to bower install in the postinstall, bower prompts:

[?] May bower anonymously report usage statistics to improve the tool over time? (Y/n)

This is screwing up the automated scripts. I could write an expect script to deal with this but I'd rather not if I don't have to. Is there a way to get it to shut up?

Answer 1

As was noted in a comment, this was raised as an issue at github. At the end of that issue there's reference to a minor note at the end of the CHANGELOG comments:

NOTE: It's advisable that users use --config.interactive=false on automated scripts.