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Andrew Fant <andrew.fant <at> tufts.edu> writes: |
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> I'm not sure that I would call that a cool benefit. It seems to come close |
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> to an egregious violation of privacy. I know that there is no promise of |
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> confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync servers, but to actively |
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> and publicly start collecting data about who is using what seems to only |
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> invite more paranoia. |
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Let's say that limiting the rsync to installed packages has a side-effect. |
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Whether it is a benefit or not depends on many factors. |
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I would say that the collection of installed package statistics is NOT a reason |
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to rsync on installed packages only. The reasons to rsync on installed packages |
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is to reduce the load on the rsync servers and to make the rsync faster (rsync |
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speed was a definite problem on my old laptop). When I was using rsync to run |
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against installed packages, I was bringing down about 15,000 files. Note that |
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the total size of the portage tree is irrelevant. |
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I took for granted that the ONLY statistics that would be collected would be |
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statistics on the entire community. |
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For example: |
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x% of gentoo users install metalog |
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y% of gentoo users install syslogd |
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z% of gentoo users install syslog-ng |
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...etc. |
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I also imagined that, like in the patch I submitted, the rsync against installed |
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packages was an option. The default would be a full rsync. Just like |
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gentoo-stats is an option (in fact gentoo-stats sends a bunch of data, and you |
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can choose anonymity if you wish). |
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take care |
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tim |
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