FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:28:43AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> On 4/9/2014 11:22, Big Lebowski wrote:
> > While we are not having any way to measure ports usage (or am I wrong
> > here?), we're still building packages from ports, and I would hope that we
> > could get some statistics of pkg usage for certain packages from official
> > repositories, could we? This is not exactly direct relationship for the
> > port being used but I would think that such knowledge is better than none.
> 
> How do you distinguish packages downloaded by mirrors versus those
> downloaded by pkg?  At DragonFly, we'd love to know how to do this
> because it always comes up when the "it's kill to kill i386 platform"
> discussion comes up.  Every time somebody brings up a statistic about
> how many times packages are download (or what % packages downloaded are
> i386) then the very next questions is: are those legitimate downloads.
> 
> 
> > As a sidenote, perhaps its the time to introduce some sort of package/ports
> > usage data gathering to FreeBSD just like Debian/Ubuntu are doing it, that
> > would be anonymous and optional?
> 
> Maybe pkg adds some unique variable to the download URL.  If not, it
> could, and statistics could be tracked that way by analyzing the web
> server logs.
> 
The useragent for pkg is pkg/version :D

Exactly for that purpose

regards,
Bapt
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