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On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:59:57 +0100 |
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"Andreas K. Hüttel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 24 January 2016 16:50:46 Göktürk Yüksek wrote: |
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> > I don't want to go off-topic here too much but this is more than a |
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> > missing tools issue. There are privacy concerns regarding the |
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> > collection of such information. I recall this proposed idea from |
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> > Google Summer of Code: |
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> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas#Package_stati |
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> > stics_reporting_tool |
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> This has been debated to death. As long as noone is forced to use it, |
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> privacy concerns shouldnt be a problem. And it would be extremely |
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> useful how many of our maintainer-needed packages are actually still |
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> compiled once per year. (Or if any one single person even uses KDE on |
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> ppc64.) |
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you'd probably get much more reliable stats on package usage by |
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gathering distfiles d/l stats from mirrors and mapping that to packages |
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