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Luke-Jr (luke-jr@×××××××.org) scribbled: |
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> On Friday 22 October 2004 10:13 pm, Mike wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:00:55 +0000, Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > On Friday 22 October 2004 9:56 pm, Andrew Fant wrote: |
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> > > > I'm not sure that I would call that a cool benefit. It seems to come |
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> > > > close to an egregious violation of privacy. I know that there is no |
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> > > > promise of confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync servers, but |
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> > > > to actively and publicly start collecting data about who is using what |
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> > > > seems to only invite more paranoia. |
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> > > |
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> > > Except that it won't be able to reliably collect the "who" part, only the |
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> > > "what". Sure, you could log IPs, but many users IPs change more |
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> > > frequently than they sync. |
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> > |
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> > Even the what won't be reliable, as it won't show all of us who use |
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> > emerge-webrsync due to firewall restrictions. |
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> It would be a decent sample, though. Which is a positive thing, IMO... |
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> I recall when I was a developer I was wondering whether a pkg was ready for |
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> stable or if simply nobody had tried it... In that case, it was a |
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> not-so-common server, so I wouldn't be surprised if all the people using it |
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> stuck w/ stable version... |
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I'm also wary of the idea of logging what people have installed on their |
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machines... It's too prone to abuse. There are other solutions to your |
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dilemma above; say, asking on gentoo-user ;) |
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I don't think the potential for abuse is worth the knowledge gain. |
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Cooper. |
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