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On Monday 30 July 2001 20:24, you wrote: |
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> Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> writes: |
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> Hmm, generally I'm (and _many_ others) are against this type of |
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> sending information about which programs you use and such. Statistics |
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> of which packages people use we can probably get from the ftp-server |
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> (to see which files are most requested). |
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This information would almost irrelevant IMHO. Many packages are downloaded |
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from their homesites, and some are downloaded but not installed, and some are |
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uninstalled, etc. |
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As for privacy: personally I wouldn't be against reporting my own usage in |
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this way. So if make such a system and turn it off by default, there |
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shuoldn't be a problem. Of course, if most Gentoo users keep it off, the data |
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it gives us won't be as reliable. But in this sense I think it's worth a try. |
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> I think however that we should create a script (if there isn't one |
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> already) that helps a user to bugreport. Perhaps something like: |
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> 1) Which package do you have problem with |
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> 2) Describe the problem |
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> 3) The program creates a list of all installed packages and add it. |
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> 4) Mail the bugreport to gentoo-dev. |
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That's also important. Such a script and my proposal are complementary, both |
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are best. The scripts reports failures and the system reports successes. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team |
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Matan, Israel |
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