From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Aug 30 18:53:42 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D66A3C5689 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BfjCp3G3cz4LQZ for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 6FDFC3C5687; Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA763C5686 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@FreeBSD.org) Received: from shell1.rawbw.com (shell1.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BfjCp07NQz4L40; Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@FreeBSD.org) Received: from yv.noip.me (c-73-189-35-76.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.189.35.76]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell1.rawbw.com (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id 07UIrWkO006507 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 30 Aug 2020 11:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.rawbw.com: Host c-73-189-35-76.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.189.35.76] claimed to be yv.noip.me Subject: Re: Aggressive ports removal To: FreeBSD Developers , ports@freebsd.org Cc: Warner Losh , freebsd@dreamchaser.org, Niclas Zeising , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <202008291154.07TBsr7L086597@repo.freebsd.org> <9a4583d9-097e-d0ba-4959-5c4d7b96b611@freebsd.org> <20200829232707.GC46173@eureka.lemis.com> <3ef2fdf3-c746-2f57-ec2f-2f8784bfd5ce@dreamchaser.org> From: Yuri Message-ID: Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 11:53:31 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4BfjCp07NQz4L40 X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.00 / 15.00]; local_wl_from(0.00)[FreeBSD.org]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7961, ipnet:198.144.192.0/19, country:US] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:53:42 -0000 On 2020-08-30 11:20, Warner Losh wrote: > > I don't know how easy this would be to implement, but it would be very > useful > to know which ports are actually being built and installed.  How difficult This is already implemented in the BSDstats project (sysutils/bsdstats). It does such accounting for hosts that have BSDstats installed. It shows stats on it's webpage https://bsdstats.org/ However, not many people are willing to install sysutils/bsdstats, or know about it, so it only counts based on a tiny fraction of hosts running FreeBSD. Best, Yuri