Has the port collection become to large to handle.

[Marc G. Fournier]

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 <waves hand> 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 ...

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