Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:15:33 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Subject: Re: Google Code as an upstream is gone Message-ID: <57EE1F25.7070902@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <201609292110.u8TLAHgM037995@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201609292110.u8TLAHgM037995@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Julian H. Stacey wrote on 09/29/2016 23:10: [...] >> We probably need a way to find out how often a pkg is downloaded >> from a repo to understand which ports/pkg are really used in our >> user base. This helps to decide if a port is really no longer in use. > > Insufficient test. I never download packages. I always compile. > pkg info | wc -l > 1216 > I keep old distfiles. Occasionaly i've fed lost distfiles back to the net. > > PS I guess some of us might not mind enabling a switch on some not > all of our boxes, if some auto collector robot @freebsd collected > stats on ports, driven by some make post-install or post make package > Mk/ macro But it should be off by default: privacy issues. There were some attempts, for example bsdstats which can be installed from ports. But it is rarely used and stats are not correct http://bsdstats.org/ports.php To make it useful it should be in base install and On by default - and I understand that many users will be against this. Miroslav Lachman
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