From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 14 19:16:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0345016A44A for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 19:16:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBF7943D72 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 19:16:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1411290C20; Sun, 14 May 2006 16:16:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17324-10; Sun, 14 May 2006 16:16:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 722B6290C1F; Sun, 14 May 2006 16:16:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C2BE65DF50; Sun, 14 May 2006 16:16:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C19ED5D26C; Sun, 14 May 2006 16:16:22 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 16:16:22 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Robert Huff In-Reply-To: <17511.16810.868922.107073@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Message-ID: <20060514161533.I1279@ganymede.hub.org> References: <44667EAF.10802@vonostingroup.com> <17511.16810.868922.107073@jerusalem.litteratus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Has the port collection become to large to handle. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 19:16:31 -0000 On Sun, 14 May 2006, Robert Huff wrote: > > fbsd writes: > >> Comments have been posted about how to determine in a fair way >> which ports would be included in the most commonly used category? >> >> The solution to that concern is pretty easy to do. Modify the >> master make code to post a count to a special purpose FreeBSD >> website by passing it a cookie. Now every time a any user runs >> the port "make install" that special purpose FreeBSD website will >> be accessed counting how many times that port is really executed. > > That works fine ... right up until some goober has > to rebuild four times because they didn't understand the options, or > it conflicted with something else, or needed to be reinstalled after > a system crash, etc.. Record port/portversion and IP where it was installed ... count based on unique installs ... > And even if the technolgy works, I understand the position of > the poster who doesn't want others knowing what is installed. At > best it would be optional and on an "opt-in" basis; this means > large numbers of people won't ... and there goes confidence in the > rest of the data. So, make it 'opt-out' instead ... by default, it logs, and you can turn it off if you don't like it ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664