On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:59:57 +0100 "Andreas K. Hüttel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Sunday 24 January 2016 16:50:46 Göktürk Yüksek wrote: > > > > I don't want to go off-topic here too much but this is more than a > > missing tools issue. There are privacy concerns regarding the > > collection of such information. I recall this proposed idea from > > Google Summer of Code: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas#Package_stati > > stics_reporting_tool > > This has been debated to death. As long as noone is forced to use it, > privacy concerns shouldnt be a problem. And it would be extremely > useful how many of our maintainer-needed packages are actually still > compiled once per year. (Or if any one single person even uses KDE on > ppc64.) you'd probably get much more reliable stats on package usage by gathering distfiles d/l stats from mirrors and mapping that to packages
