Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rsync speed and space taken

[Roman Gaufman]

How about getting only the installed ebuilds + *all* the ebuilds that
may have potential patent violation by default? :P

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:29:00 -0400, Jason Cooper <gentoo@××××××××××.net> wrote:
> Luke-Jr (luke-jr@×××××××.org) scribbled:
>
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> > On Friday 22 October 2004 10:13 pm, Mike wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:00:55 +0000, Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 22 October 2004 9:56 pm, Andrew Fant wrote:
> > > > > I'm not sure that I would call that a cool benefit.  It seems to come
> > > > > close to an egregious violation of privacy.   I know that there is no
> > > > > promise of confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync servers, but
> > > > > to actively and publicly start collecting data about who is using what
> > > > > seems to only invite more paranoia.
> > > >
> > > > Except that it won't be able to reliably collect the "who" part, only the
> > > > "what". Sure, you could log IPs, but many users IPs change more
> > > > frequently than they sync.
> > >
> > > Even the what won't be reliable, as it won't show all of us who use
> > > emerge-webrsync due to firewall restrictions.
> > It would be a decent sample, though. Which is a positive thing, IMO...
> > I recall when I was a developer I was wondering whether a pkg was ready for
> > stable or if simply nobody had tried it... In that case, it was a
> > not-so-common server, so I wouldn't be surprised if all the people using it
> > stuck w/ stable version...
>
> I'm also wary of the idea of logging what people have installed on their
> machines... It's too prone to abuse.  There are other solutions to your
> dilemma above; say, asking on gentoo-user ;)
>
> I don't think the potential for abuse is worth the knowledge gain.
>
> Cooper.
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