Google Code as an upstream is gone

[Miroslav Lachman]

Julian H. Stacey wrote on 09/29/2016 23:10:

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>> 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